Chapter, Paragraph
1 Fwd,1| schism in 1054 by a fallible man called the pope, or founded
2 Fwd,4| book speaks about God and man, the word man in this context
3 Fwd,4| about God and man, the word man in this context is used
4 Fwd,5| at large, when the word man is not grammatically or
5 Fwd,5| that excludes women. Both man and human are derived from
6 Fwd,5| when the offensive word man is discovered in human and
7 Fwd,5| points out that the use of man and mankind to designate
8 Fwd,5| der Mensch (German), de man (Dutch), zmogus (Lithuanian),
9 Fwd,5| the words mankind, men, man, and the masculine referent
10 Fwd,5| proverb: “Behind every great man stands a great woman.” Indeed,
11 Fwd,6| politically incorrect word man in the text. There is no
12 1,1 | binding” of the “strong man” in Mark 3:27 (see also
13 1,2 | sent by Him to assist every man in inheriting salvation (
14 2,13| inspired by the purpose of man's salvation.~ ~
15 2,17| unknowable and inaccessible to man and altogether impossible
16 2,18| 18.~ How can man break down the wall of sin
17 2,18| God?~ Of his own efforts, man cannot break down this separation.~ ~
18 2,19| but that Christ reconciles man to God. Moreover, the metropolitan
19 2,19| God is never opposed to man, but man opposed himself
20 2,19| never opposed to man, but man opposed himself to God by
21 2,19| participation with Him. Thus, man makes God his enemy, but
22 2,19| enemy, but God does not make man His enemy. Through the sin
23 2,19| the sin which he commits, man sees God in an angry and
24 2,19| wall of separation that man's sinfulness created between
25 2,19| created between God and man. The human race from the
26 2,19| and through the union of man and God in His own Person,
27 2,20| Head. As Christ said, “If a man neglect to hear the Church,
28 2,20| if right belief saves a man, then disbelief is the lethal
29 2,20| Spirit, about the way of man's salvation, also has ecclesiastical
30 2,20| heresies reverse the way of man's cure for reaching deification,
31 2,20| setup a barrier between man and God, leaving people
32 2,20| humanizing God and deifying man. Men are vexed and angered
33 2,20| a vendetta. Not only the man who insulted you, but also
34 2,20| helplessness, was that no man, not even all humanity,
35 2,20| incarnation of His Son, so that a man of Godly dignity could be
36 2,20| characteristic features of fallen man, such as that God is angry
37 2,20| Who needs curing and not man. But this is sacrilegious.
38 2,20| sacrilegious. The sinful man who is characterized by
39 2,20| We cannot say that God is man's enemy, but that man, by
40 2,20| is man's enemy, but that man, by the sin which he has
41 2,20| cured the ailing nature of man. And this is said not solely
42 2,20| offered it in order to cure man and to sanctify him [pp.
43 2,20| effort is to cure God and not man, to satisfy God's justice....
44 2,21| states that “God became man that we might become god.”~ ~
45 2,22| cited in 23 below), spoke of man's deification (theosis in
46 2,22| Greek). Arguing that if man is to share in God's glory
47 2,22| perfectly one” with Him, man must become deified. That
48 2,23| Son of God, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature
49 2,25| 25.~ If man is to share in God's glory,
50 2,25| would he have to attain?~ Man would have to be deified.
51 2,26| both fully God and fully man. The textbook goes on to
52 2,26| was not presented as truly man (Monophysitism, Monothelitism).~ ~
53 2,26| Christ is fully God and fully man.~ ~
54 2,27| one less than God can save man.~ ~
55 2,28| must Christ be truly, fully man?~ Christ must also be fully
56 2,28| Christ must also be fully man so that human beings can
57 2,29| was formed between God and man?~ The Incarnate Christ,
58 2,29| Christ, Who is both God and man, is the bridge between God
59 2,29| the bridge between God and man.~ ~
60 2,30| descending upon the Son of Man” (Jn 1:51).~ ~
61 2,33| this heresy was to render man's deification impossible.
62 2,33| held that He was not truly man. Monophysitism maintained
63 2,33| manhood, truly God and truly man... acknowledged in two natures
64 2,33| person. That is to say, a man is a hypostasis, he has
65 2,35| purpose the salvation of man and that the Council is
66 2,36| wall of separation that man's sinfulness had created
67 2,36| created between God and man. To this end, He became
68 2,36| To this end, He became man, was crucified, and rose
69 2,36| both fully God and fully man, became a bridge between
70 2,36| a bridge between God and man, and He invites people to
71 2,36| error and heresy so that man can attain full salvation.~
72 3,5 | oneself. In this manner, a man insensibly equates himself
73 3,5 | God-Man [Christ] with the man.~ ~As of Rome's infinitely
74 3,5 | possibility for an individual man to be infallible, no matter
75 3,12| be called the Mother of Man (Anthropotokos), or at most
76 3,13| understanding that Mary bore not a man loosely united to God, but
77 3,13| time fully God and fully man.~ ~
78 3,14| both fully God and fully man. It is to suggest that Mary
79 3,14| the bridge between God and man and erecting within Christ'
80 3,14| side in Christ — God and a man. It affirmed that Christ'
81 3,16| of the compound makeup of man is not possible, in which
82 3,16| which case the salvation of man through partaking of the
83 3,18| replies: “And then if any man shall say to you, Lo, here
84 3,22| Christ's Incarnation and man's salvation.~ ~ ~
85 4,10| witness to the deification of man and are visible expressions
86 4,12| ways God is revealed to man. Through icons, Christians
87 4,12| distracted, dispersed soul of man on spiritual perfection,
88 4,12| direction of this period hymns man's egoism and powerfulness,
89 4,14| overlooked the fact that man is to be saved and transfigured
90 4,15| denied the deification of man in particular. That is,
91 4,15| overlooked the fact that man is to be saved and transfigured
92 5,4 | 356). When he was a young man, his parents died and left
93 5,4 | Master, “if the case of a man be so with his wife, it
94 5,4 | or a participation of man in the divine energies of
95 5,4 | enter into union with a man before he has been cleansed.”~
96 5,6 | enter into union with a man before he has been cleansed.~
97 5,7 | the Holy Spirit, given to man directly by God, according
98 5,7 | attaining to the will of God for man. That is, to a greater or
99 5,8 | through its fulfillment man could express his freely-willed
100 5,8 | s intention was to teach man submission to the divine
101 5,8 | envied the honor in which man was held. If he kept the
102 5,8 | he kept the commandment, man would live forever, immortal
103 5,8 | illness and sufferings, man had these misfortunes acting
104 5,8 | explains, these things gave man the opportunity to heal
105 5,8 | on the other delivers a man from illnesses, frees him
106 5,8 | Genesis, Creation and Early Man, p. 210].~ ~The Holy Fathers
107 5,8 | also a good, because once man fell, if he were to still
108 5,8 | spread of evil in the world. Man would get further and further
109 5,8 | return without meddling with man's freedom. He lets man make
110 5,8 | with man's freedom. He lets man make a mess of things and
111 5,8 | uses this very mess to help man return to Him. Only God
112 5,8 | seeming to gain victory over a man's soul, often loses in this
113 6,8 | the flesh of the Son of Man, and drink of His blood,
114 6,16| teaching of Sacred Scripture on man's salvation. The ideal of
115 6,16| unattainable, that not only can man never perform anything supererogatory,
116 6,16| not of works, lest any man should boast. For we are
117 6,18| but not upon a mere mortal man such as Peter. Christ never
118 6,18| would build His Church on a man (Peter), a little stone,
119 7,9 | customs such as corban. When a man did not want to support
120 7,14| other hand, “The carnal man cannot comprehend it” (1
121 7,14| the Scripture.... Whenever man tries to rely upon his own
122 7,14| thought: a growing emphasis on man rather than God. This development
123 7,14| inquiry, and beginning with man, and using man as the only
124 7,14| beginning with man, and using man as the only integration
125 7,14| create a new philosophy of man. Humanism entails nothing
126 7,14| nothing less than Western man's dethroning God and placing
127 7,14| dethroning God and placing man at the center of the universe
128 7,14| called the self-worship of man rather than God.~ The prevailing
129 7,14| made it possible to place man in the center of space.
130 7,14| optimistic, idealized concept of man. What man ever looked like
131 7,14| idealized concept of man. What man ever looked like Michael-angelo'
132 7,14| of the humanist ideal of man's “greatness.” Religious
133 7,14| of this new emphasis on man to the exclusion of God.
134 7,14| achievements, the Renaissance man identified himself as creator:
135 7,14| of biography strengthened man's faith in himself.~ ~Not
136 7,14| realized that, starting with man, one would never arrive
137 7,14| existence had been lost, man was no more than a machine,
138 7,14| enough time.” This is fallen man speaking. And once man has
139 7,14| fallen man speaking. And once man has placed himself at the
140 7,14| use of intellect alone, man can ascertain truth and
141 7,14| Enlightenment concluded, man can reject the idea of revealed
142 7,14| observes, Europe, Western man, our world has never recovered;
143 7,14| In describing the fall of man in this work, Aquinas proposed
144 7,14| proposed that while the will of man was corrupted, his intellect
145 7,14| What is meant was that man no longer needed God's revelation
146 7,14| century BC), who said that “man is the measure of all things.”~
147 7,14| revealed teaching of God and man, preserved throughout the
148 7,14| hence for modern Western man. As Archpriest Alexey Young
149 7,14| problem faced today by Western man. Essentially, Aristotle
150 7,14| ever since Aquinas, Western man has been faced with a crucial
151 7,14| fact that St. Paul was “a man in Christ... caught up to
152 7,14| In Western Christianity, man — not God — has been made
153 7,14| Catholicism] and Protestantism, man has replaced the God-Man
154 7,14| mind and heart of modern man.”~ Such is a historical
155 7,14| restricts Christianity to one man, while Protestantism dissipates
156 7,14| teaching maintains — and modern man has been programmed to believe —
157 7,17| holy books was a righteous man, St. Simeon, known as the
158 7,20| which God is revealed to man. They are windows into Heaven,
159 7,21| a revelation by God for man to be cured. Thus it is
160 7,21| a medicine necessary for man's cure. The wrong use of
161 7,21| self-justification which do not save man [The Mind of the Orthodox
162 8 | 8. God And Man.~ ~
163 8,2 | no other choice.” Also, man is created in the image
164 8,4 | communicates Himself to man in the form of deifying
165 8,4 | divine life accessible to man without taking away from
166 8,14| is important is not that man can argue about the Deity,
167 8,14| about the Deity, but how man can understand and reach
168 9 | 9. Man: His Creation, Vocation
169 9,1 | 1.~ For what purpose was man made?~ He was made for fellowship
170 9,2 | 2.~ The creation of man was an act of Whom?~ The
171 9,2 | of Whom?~ The creation of man was an act of God.~ ~
172 9,3 | of God in the creation of man?~ These words are from the “
173 9,3 | And God said: let Us make man in Our image, after Our
174 9,3 | the earth. So God created man in His own image, in the
175 9,3 | explained that “the Creator made man after His image and likeness
176 9,3 | imprint of this image on man's very being, on human nature
177 9,3 | emphasis on the image of God in man. Image is taken to mean
178 9,3 | that which distinguishes man from animal creation, and
179 9,3 | rationality, free will, and man's sense of moral responsibility,
180 9,3 | qualities with which every man, from the first moment of
181 9,3 | and that between God and man is an essential similarity.
182 9,3 | similarity. However sinful a man may become, the image of
183 9,3 | that the image of God in man is stronger than in angels,
184 9,3 | angels, precisely because man has a nous (the eye of the
185 9,3 | beginning only potentially, and man himself was to work on attaining
186 9,3 | Likeness is a goal, it is what man must aim at and work for.
187 9,3 | must aim at and work for. Man is created in God's image
188 9,3 | participate in His nature. Man is also made to become ever
189 9,3 | God for all eternity. If man properly uses the faculty
190 9,3 | degree a divine likeness. Man becomes, in the words of
191 9,3 | perfection, is something man is called to acquire through
192 9,3 | abilities. This requires that man work on himself spiritually.
193 9,3 | himself spiritually. If a man strives for truth and good,
194 9,3 | like God. However, if a man loves only himself, lies,
195 9,5 | Orthodox Church with regard to man's original state in Eden.~
196 9,5 | Eden.~ Augustine depicted man in his primordial state
197 9,5 | Orthodoxy teaches that man was perfect in his first
198 9,5 | creation with God's image, man was called to acquire God'
199 9,6 | Pa-lamas on the nature of man. Write out this quote.~
200 9,6 | God is said to have made man according to His image,
201 9,6 | according to His image, the word man means neither the soul by
202 9,8 | 8.~ When God created man, He did not want a slave.
203 9,8 | slave. What did He want man to be to Him?~ God wanted
204 9,8 | to be to Him?~ God wanted man to be a son to Him.~ ~
205 9,9 | grace which infringes upon man's freedom.~ ~
206 9,12| Orthodoxy believes that man has his own part to play
207 9,12| fellowship with God. Although man can do nothing toward this
208 9,12| importance than the work done by man, man nevertheless must make
209 9,12| than the work done by man, man nevertheless must make his
210 9,12| contribution to the common work. Man's work toward fellowship
211 9,12| divine will, inasmuch as man's will (rather than his
212 9,12| it ascribes too much to man's free will, and too little
213 9,13| between the free will of man and the purpose of God.
214 9,14| God knocks, but waits for man to open the door — He does
215 9,14| imagined that because a man accepts and guards God's
216 9,14| are always free gifts, and man can never have any claims
217 9,14| claims upon his Maker. But man, while he cannot merit salvation,
218 9,15| is immortality and life, man defiles his humanity with
219 9,15| mere physical level: since man was cut off from God, Adam
220 9,15| evil and hard to do good. Man's will is weakened and perverted
221 9,15| exalted view of the state of man prior to the fall, and it
222 9,15| thus the West) held that man fell from a state of all
223 9,15| resulted in the darkening of man's mind and the impairing
224 9,15| that Adam's fall deprived man completely of God's grace (
225 9,15| the fall, grace acts on man from the outside rather
226 9,15| view that after the fall man was completely depraved
227 9,15| rejects Augustine's view that man is under “a harsh necessity”
228 9,15| committing sin, and that “man's nature was overcome by
229 9,15| freedom” [On the Perfection of Man's Righteousness, IV-9].
230 9,15| can be distorted by sin, man still remains created in
231 9,15| wounds of sin.” And because man still retains the image
232 9,15| God “takes not away from man the power to will — to will
233 9,15| Christians hold that nothing a man does in his fallen and unredeemed
234 9,15| and the impossibility of man's actions being pleasing
235 9,15| Orthodoxy believes that man retained a free will after
236 9,15| West in the belief that man's sin has set up a barrier
237 9,15| barrier between God and man, a barrier that man can
238 9,15| and man, a barrier that man can never break down by
239 9,15| way of union with God, and man needed to be saved. Because
240 9,15| needed to be saved. Because man could not draw near to God,
241 9,15| near to God, God came to man. As Bishop Alexander of
242 9,17| become incarnate even if man had not fallen?~ It is the
243 9,17| among them — that even had man never fallen, God in His
244 9,17| would still have become man. The Incarnation, then,
245 9,18| of salvation. By uniting man and God in His Person, God
246 9,18| back within the reach of man. Christ, the New and Final
247 9,19| He is true God and true man, one Person in two natures,
248 9,23| tyranny of the devil and set man free. On the tree He triumphed
249 9,24| The West dwells on the Man of Sorrows and sees Christ
250 9,28| Spirit is given to every man to profit withal” (1 Cor
251 9,29| this idea when he described man as a creature who has received
252 9,29| Athanasius stated that God became man that man might become god.~
253 9,29| that God became man that man might become god.~ In speaking
254 9,29| Mary Mansur explains that man became ill when the nous (
255 9,29| Hierotheos of Nafpaktos adds:~ ~Man's basic problem is to learn
256 9,29| to divinization, which is man's original destination [
257 9,30| theosis there lies the idea of man made according to the image
258 9,33| organic union between God and man, a union of God dwelling
259 9,35| Gregory Palamas).~ Secondly, man always retains his full
260 9,35| the union between God and man is a true union, Creator
261 9,35| of Eastern religions that man is entirely absorbed into
262 9,35| absorbed into the deity. Man in his deified state is
263 9,35| with God's will.~ Lastly, man's becoming a god does not
264 9,35| remained God when becoming Man by the Incarnation,” so
265 9,35| Vladimir Lossky explains. Man can never become God by
266 9,35| understanding of the “godness” of man's essence and one's ability
267 9,35| actress Shirley MacLaine: “Man has existed from the beginning
268 9,35| beginning of time and space.... Man was the co-creator with
269 9,35| lie which brought about man's fall when he accepted
270 9,35| about his death? Is not man's acceptance of this lie
271 9,36| divinization) refer only to man's soul, or does it also
272 9,37| Maximus the Confessor wrote: “Man's body is deified at the
273 9,37| textbook explains that because man is a union of soul and body,
274 9,37| Christ has saved the whole man, then it follows that man
275 9,37| man, then it follows that man is to be deified in both
276 9,38| Prophet Elisseus a dead man resurrected (4 Kings [2
277 9,38| deification of the body. Since man is a unity of body and soul,
278 9,39| redemption. In addition to man's body, all of the material
279 9,39| away”(Rev 21:1). Redeemed man will not be taken away from
280 9,39| cannot be separated, for a man is able to love his neighbor
281 9,39| The textbook explains that man, who is made in the image
282 9,39| that of the Holy Trinity. Man must dwell with his fellow
283 9,39| in one another. That is, man must not live for himself
284 9,42| how it affected not only man's existence on earth, but
285 9,42| concerning the primitive life of man. Even a Time magazine article “
286 9,42| Time magazine article “How Man Began” (March 14, 1994)
287 9,42| primitive state of the race of man. Comparative study of these
288 9,42| about the primitive state of man is not alone. Various s
289 9,42| primitive state and fall of man? The only explanation can
290 9,42| changes as a consequence of man's fall.~ Another question
291 9,42| fall and was the product of man's fallen nature. The Holy
292 9,42| two differing reactions of man's reason to the fall into
293 9,42| Already, the first steps of man outside Paradise were covered
294 9,42| City of God and the City of Man. It was this second group
295 9,42| Another question was how man's primordial fall affected
296 9,42| primordial fall affected man's relations with animals,
297 9,42| condition is related to man's fall. Thus in the two
298 9,42| animals refused to submit to man, the criminal. Speaking
299 9,42| this new condition vividly. Man, he says, is created in
300 9,42| then, rebelled against man and now does not acknowledge
301 9,42| give him its fruits. Thus, man is sustained with anguish
302 9,42| quite aggressive. Yet, when man receives the grace of Christ,
303 9,42| in this area showed that man's eating meat is a condition
304 9,42| Fathers confirm that early man's sustenance was a diet
305 9,42| that which was assigned to man by the Creator immediately
306 9,42| as the Fathers suggest, man had by this time become
307 10,3 | stated: “For the Son of Man shall come in the glory
308 10,3 | then He shall reward every man according to his works” (
309 10,3 | among the Fathers that “no man sins alone.” In his Orthodox
310 10,13| Cyprian instructed: “A man cannot have God as his Father
311 10,13| the Truth and the Life, no man cometh unto the Father except
312 10,14| looks upon the heart of man and has mercy upon those
313 10,14| and “Who enlightens every man born into the world” (Jn
314 10,16| Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the
315 10,16| doctrine, for he is still a man and is thus capable of making
316 10,20| for the dead and because a man's fate beyond the grave
317 10,20| fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much”; the Apostle
318 10,20| Church, just as we are, and a man's death, from the Christian
319 10,20| concerns the recompense to each man according to his works (
320 10,20| word against the Son of Man, it shall be forgiven him;
321 10,20| The parable of the rich man and Lazarus shows that there
322 10,21| that receiveth a righteous man in the name of a righteous
323 10,21| the name of a righteous man shall receive a righteous
324 10,21| shall receive a righteous man's reward” (Mt 10:41). “Whosoever
325 10,21| should receive a righteous man as a righteous man. If he
326 10,21| righteous man as a righteous man. If he is a brother or sister
327 10,21| The parable of the rich man and Lazarus (Lk 16:19-31)
328 10,21| hear the cry of the rich man from hell, even though a “
329 10,22| accepted the prayer of the holy man and pardoned the stiff-necked
330 10,22| and, pointing to another man who was with him, said to
331 10,22| fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much” (James 5:
332 10,23| taught that “God became man so that man might become
333 10,23| God became man so that man might become divine,” that
334 10,23| purpose and the will of man. The Mother of God is, as
335 10,23| a birth-giving without a man, while actually the birth
336 10,23| shall not be opened, and no man shall enter in by it; because
337 10,23| the Virgin Mary and became man.” The dogma of the Virgin
338 10,26| Mediator between God and man, Jesus Christ” (1 Tim 2:
339 10,27| other as pertaining to the Man... and does not venerate,
340 10,27| adoration, God the Word made man, together with His flesh,
341 10,27| life, no matter how much a man might be attached to another —
342 10,28| final aim of the creation of man, which is blessedness in
343 10,28| truth” (1 Tim 2:4). However, man is capable, through his
344 10,28| in His Son Jesus that no man will fail to perceive His
345 10,28| appear the sign of the Son of Man in Heaven; and then shall
346 10,28| the coming of the Son of Man be” (Mt 24:27). Again, it
347 10,28| be ready; for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you
348 10,28| they shall see the Son of Man coming in the clouds of
349 10,28| 31) and to “reward every man according to his works” (
350 11,3 | of the Renaissance that man has been made the measure
351 11,4 | states that in Orthodoxy, man is seen above all else as “
352 11,4 | the Provider and Savior of man; about the Son of God as
353 11,4 | destiny of the world and man — the Second Coming of Christ,
354 11,4 | war continually waged in man's soul between virtue and
355 11,4 | Heaven, after the fall of man into sin, was closed to
356 Ep | depraved wisdom to an unhappy man so that he will discover
357 Ep | discover a way by which one man can carry on a conversation
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