theology

Theosis

Theosis represents more than moral improvement or legal justification; it is an ontological transformation where the human person is saturated with divine life.

The Fall

The Fall was not merely a violation of a legal code but a cosmic failure. Self-love replaced the love of God as the driving force of human existence.

Tabernacle

The outer court represents the initial stage of purification and detachment from materiality, while the entry into the sanctuary signifies the illumination of the intellect.

Second Temple

As Christian's we understand that the sacrificial system of the Temple has been fulfilled by the sacrifice of Jesus Christ.

Pascha

The highest point of something must be given up to that which precedes it. Sacrificing the best part, the first fruit, anchors the value of everything else, allowing the rest of the world to have meaning.

Nephilim

The presence of the Nephilim and the illicit unions that produced the mighty men are a primary catalyst for the corruption of the antediluvian world,.

Monasticism

Monasticism is the angelic life, a way of living that seeks to follow the Gospel of Christ in an immediate and direct manner.

Logos

In the beginning was the word or the logos and the logos was with God and the logos was God he was in the beginning with God all things were made through him without him nothing was made and in him was life and that life was the light of men

The Jesus Prayer

Hesychasm

Human participation in God is a real personal encounter rather than a participation in a created medium.

Golden Calf

The construction of the golden calf was not merely an act of religious deviation but a fundamental shift in the psyche of the community

God

God is the one infinite and eternal source of all that is.The source of existence itself, not a being, but being itself.