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**Assauraarguck** · 04-17-2006, 05:11 PM

Dear Byron,

Certainly your 'avian' reference from Bishop Kallistos is proper and correct.

After all, to use another 'avian' example, (the Baptism of Christ in the Jordan, and the Holy Spirit appearing in the form of a dove) it is precisely this wondorous transformation of being from existing as just 'fallen' individuals and by the Grace of the Holy Spirit transformed into a child of Christ, (to use Father Sophrony's terminology) ...'He (Fr. Sophrony) therefore prefers to use "hypostasis" in order to distinguish this concept of personhood. To express the basis of personhood in God's image and that is inherent in all humans he often uses the expression "hypostatic principle"...Fr. Sophrony used to say that if we manage to express correctly what God has revealed to us about the person, then without fail the uniqueness of the Church's tradition - as compared to all the religious, philosophical, psychological and other schools of thought we meet in the contemporary world - will be made apparent...According to Old Testament and Christian revelation, the Absolute Being is personal. From the book of Genesis to the book of Revelation, we see the Triune God, "thinking [Judith: 9:5] the world and Adam, creating them, and preserving and maintaining His creation - and not least, revealing Himself and saving mankind. All this is the work of the Holy Trinity: the work of the Father through the Son in the Holy Spirit [cf., Ps: 32/33: 6,9]

(quoted from: ANAPHORA STIN THEOLOGIA TOU GERONTOS SOFRONIOU - Archimandriti Zacharou).

04-17-2006, 05:11 PM	#32
Assauraarguck Join Date Nov 2005 Posts 464 Senior Member	Dear Byron, Certainly your 'avian' reference from Bishop Kallistos is proper and correct. After all, to use another 'avian' example, (the Baptism of Christ in the Jordan, and the Holy Spirit appearing in the form of a dove) it is precisely this wondorous transformation of being from existing as just 'fallen' individuals and by the Grace of the Holy Spirit transformed into a child of Christ, (to use Father Sophrony's terminology) ...'He (Fr. Sophrony) therefore prefers to use "hypostasis" in order to distinguish this concept of personhood. To express the basis of personhood in God's image and that is inherent in all humans he often uses the expression "hypostatic principle"...Fr. Sophrony used to say that if we manage to express correctly what God has revealed to us about the person, then without fail the uniqueness of the Church's tradition - as compared to all the religious, philosophical, psychological and other schools of thought we meet in the contemporary world - will be made apparent...According to Old Testament and Christian revelation, the Absolute Being is personal. From the book of Genesis to the book of Revelation, we see the Triune God, "thinking [Judith: 9:5] the world and Adam, creating them, and preserving and maintaining His creation - and not least, revealing Himself and saving mankind. All this is the work of the Holy Trinity: the work of the Father through the Son in the Holy Spirit [cf., Ps: 32/33: 6,9] (quoted from: ANAPHORA STIN THEOLOGIA TOU GERONTOS SOFRONIOU - Archimandriti Zacharou).
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