Chapter,  Paragraph

  1 Pref   |            power of the living God as Father, Son and Holy Spirit, who
  2 Intro,1|             to the disciples: “As the Father has sent me, even so I send
  3 Intro,1|              vision in the thought of Father Thomas Hopko, Dean of St.
  4 Intro,1|             Orthodoxy and culture,[1] Father Hopko is forthright, almost
  5 Intro,1|          point as “violent but true,” Father Thomas advocates numerous
  6 Intro,1|              is, Christ is there.”[2] Father Hopko’s perspective is as
  7 Intro,1|         develop is not in contrast to Father Hopko’s vision. It is only
  8 Intro,5|             His teachings, He and the Father will come to dwell in our
  9 Intro,6|          works and give glory to your Father in heaven” (Mt. 5:14-16).
 10 Intro,6|        Orthodoxy for the glory of the Father and the Son and the Holy
 11 1,2    |           possible for the Antiochean Father to link the Church's saving
 12 1,2    |              is behind the Antiochean Father’s point that the preeminent
 13 1,2    |              benefits. The Antiochean Father enumerates these blessings
 14 1,2    |             the same essence with~the Father, and as many other truths
 15 1,2    |               Israel!” The Antiochean Father, appealing rhetorically
 16 1,2    |      resurrection. For the Antiochean Father this same gospel was anticipated
 17 1,3    |               days of the Alexandrian Father:~ ~The Savior is working
 18 1,3    |                How did the Antiochean Father understand the workings
 19 1,4    |           according to the Antiochean Father, the grace of the Spirit
 20 1,4    |              which He brings from the Father. The attention required
 21 1,4    |          silence which the Antiochean Father elsewhere calls “mystical
 22 1,4    |              festival. The Antiochean Father, rightly surnamed “Chrysostomos” (“
 23 2,2    |              a prayer directed to the Father, reads as follows:~ ~Once
 24 2,2    |              we offer to You (God the Father) this rational (logiken)
 25 2,2    |              offers thanks to God the Father for all the work of salvation
 26 2,2    |             prayer as a prayer to the Father: “You so loved Your world
 27 2,3    |             the same essence with the Father.[53]~ For Chrysostom, the
 28 2,4    |              he was in union with the Father sustaining the life of creation.
 29 2,4    |             with God. The Alexandrian Father invokes, as well, uses Pauline
 30 3,4    |             share the life of God the Father in the power of the Holy
 31 3,4    |             will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will
 32 4,1    |              saving activity of God — Father, Son and Holy Spirit — lived
 33 4,1    |               them in the name of the Father and of the~Son and of the
 34 4,2    |       plentitude of the living God as Father, Son and Spirit, a mystery
 35 4,2    |          person of Christ in whom the Father is revealed by the power
 36 4,2    |           risen Christ? It is God the Father in whom all authority in
 37 4,2    |               He is manifested as the Father’s “beloved Son” (Mt. 3:17;
 38 4,2    |             11:25-27:~ ~I thank thee, Father, Lord of heaven and earth,
 39 4,2    |            been delivered to me by my Father; and no one knows the Son~
 40 4,2    |              knows the Son~except the Father, and no one knows the Father
 41 4,2    |          Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and any one
 42 4,2    |           baptize “in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the
 43 4,2    |               sequence along with the Father and God’s Spirit. Christian
 44 4,2    |       experience and belief in God as Father, Son and Spirit.~ There
 45 4,2    |              Son” by the voice of the Father, and upon whom the fullness
 46 4,2    |              one baptism, one God and Father of us all, who is above
 47 4,2    |               Holy One of Israel, the Father of Jesus Christ, should
 48 4,2    |              us there is one God, the Father . . . and one Lord, Jesus
 49 4,2    |              us there is one God, the Father, from whom are all things
 50 4,2    |               Son and Revealer of the Father (Jn 1:1, 18; cf. 20:28).
 51 4,2    |            the incarnate God, not the Father but the Son, distinct from
 52 4,2    |            the Son, distinct from the Father yet united with him, the
 53 4,2    |          Spirit who proceeds from the Father (Jn 1:14; 8:24,28,58; 10:
 54 4,2    |               Just as we prayed, “Our Father, who art in heaven . . . ,”
 55 4,2    |                 I believe in one God, Father Almighty . . . and in one
 56 4,2    |              and saving work of God — Father, Son and Holy Spirit — in
 57 4,2    |               which belong to God the Father, then the conclusion is
 58 4,2    |              God is primarily God the Father, the source of deity and
 59 4,2    |               abundantly attests, the Father is the primary cause and
 60 4,2    |               and redemption. But the Father is not alone, an isolated,
 61 4,2    |          communion and union with the Father. The Father gives all that
 62 4,2    |            union with the Father. The Father gives all that He is to
 63 4,2    |                the attribute of being Father), because the Son is the
 64 4,2    |            Son is the Son and not the Father, and it was the Son who
 65 4,2    |            day for our salvation. The Father equally gives all that He
 66 4,2    |         because the Spirit is not the Father, nor the Son, and it was
 67 4,2    |               the Trinity is one God, Father, Son and Spirit, sharing
 68 4,2    |               the attributes of being Father, Son and Spirit are not
 69 4,2    |               to Scripture, it is the Father who sends the Son to the
 70 4,2    |        becomes incarnate, neither the Father nor the Spirit. And it is
 71 4,3    |               them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy
 72 4,3    |               and destined by God the Father and sanctified by the Spirit
 73 4,3    |              Son who addresses God as Father and also teaches the disciples
 74 4,3    |       existence. “When we cry, ‘Abba! Father!’ it is the Spirit Himself
 75 4,3    |              s filial relation to the Father, and therefore our family
 76 4,3    |               blessings come from the Father, through the Son and in
 77 4,3    |          action is offered to God the Father through the Son and in the
 78 4,4    |          Thess. 2:2,9). It is God the Father who is the main actor behind
 79 4,4    |               glorification — God the Father working through his Son
 80 4,4    |             will know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in
 81 4,4    |          believers, together with his Father and the holy fire of the
 82 5,2    |            ground, and prayed: “Abba, Father, all things are possible
 83 5,2    |              the Cross was a prayer: “Father, to Your hands I commit
 84 5,2    |               fully God, one with the Father and the Spirit, sharing
 85 5,2    |          renewed his closeness to the Father, the hallmark of Christ’
 86 5,2    |           eneken).~ The second Church Father, also named John, was a
 87 5,3    |               priest prays to God the Father: “We ask, pray, and entreat
 88 5,3    |            charge to call upon God as Father. As often as we pray, whether
 89 5,3    |               with invocations to the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.
 90 5,4    |         universe rather than a loving Father who embraces our whole life
 91 5,4    |              people . . . I will be a father to you and you shall be
 92 5,4    |           with tears and cries to the Father: “Remove this cup from me;
 93 5,4    |           about His identity with the Father and the Father’s purposes
 94 5,4    |               with the Father and the Father’s purposes about the salvation
 95 5,5    |        branches (Jn 15:1-11). “As the Father has loved me, so have I
 96 5,5    |             will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will
 97 5,5    |             will know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in
 98 6,1    |               of his pious unlettered father. Simeon himself received
 99 6,1    |              incident a learned monk, Father Stratonicos, came to visit
100 6,1    |         several occasions. Afterwards Father Stratonicos became quiet
101 6,1    |                What is wrong with you Father Stratonicos? I don't recognize
102 6,1    |             the earth, for God is our Father~and He loves us like beloved
103 6,3    |          makes us one family with the Father. Without the Holy Spirit
104 6,5    |             complete obedience to His Father. So also each Christian
105 6,6    |         without reproach, just as the father of the Gospel story did
106 7,3    |              obedience to a spiritual father, as for example in the case
107 7,4    |               to better.” And another Father, echoing the words of Jesus,
108 8,4    |      Christians there is one God, the Father, and one Lord, Jesus Christ.
109 8,4    |              one baptism, one God and Father of us all” (Eph. 4:56),
110 9,2    |             Christ as Revealer of the Father and the Holy Spirit.~ We
111 9,2    |             as of the only Son of the Father” (Jn 1:12). And again: “
112 9,2    |               life which was with the Father and was made manifest to
113 9,2    |             our communion is with the Father and with His Son, Jesus
114 9,2    |              Son who, united with the Father and dwelling in the bosom
115 9,2    |          dwelling in the bosom of the Father, “has made Him known” (Jn
116 9,2    |           same spiritual realm of the Father — the Kingdom of light,
117 9,2    |              image of God as a loving Father. What an unusual Father
118 9,2    |               Father. What an unusual Father Jesus presents to us: a
119 9,2    |               Jesus presents to us: a Father who utterly respects the
120 9,2    |               of each human person; a Father who shared with his young
121 9,2    |            God who is pictured as the Father in that parable. God gave
122 9,2    |           squandered. What an unusual Father, a Father of generous freedom,
123 9,2    |             What an unusual Father, a Father of generous freedom, impressive
124 9,2    |         explain and interpret God the Father by how we live and use His
125 9,2    |              s gifts.~ But the loving Father is waiting as He waited
126 9,2    |          goodness and the love of the Father on which he counted to be
127 9,2    |               sufficient. The waiting Father ran out to him, embraced
128 9,2    |              See what hope the loving Father who is revealed to us through
129 9,2    |             we have departed from the Father, no matter how deeply we
130 9,2    |               to what? The way to the Father, the way to communion with
131 9,2    |            the way to share again the Father’s fullness of property —
132 9,2    |                Christ leads us to the Father not only by His teaching
133 9,2    |             paradox of how our loving Father in heaven both offered and
134 9,2    |             and share the life of our Father in heaven.~ The third lesson
135 9,2    |            shall send to you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth,
136 9,2    |          truth, who proceeds from the Father, [and] He will bear witness
137 9,2    |             come to know not only the Father but also the gift of the
138 9,2    |              reveals to us the loving Father. He is the Son who offered
139 9,3    |           practice?~ A generation ago Father Alexander Schmemann wrote
140 9,3    |            thirty-five years ago when Father Schmemann wrote. About ten
141 9,3    |             substance. More recently, Father Thomas Hopko, Dean of Saint
142 9,3    |               an Orthodox theologian, Father Hopko shows the true way
143 9,3    | accountability before God. The aim of Father Hopko as a prophetic theologian
144 9,3    |                We have Abraham as our father’; for I tell you, God is
145 9,3    |             Christ, together with the Father and the Spirit, be all the
146 10,1   |               and the love of God the Father and the communion of the
147 10,2   |         Blessed is the Kingdom of the Father and of the Son and of the
148 10,2   |          himself” and returned to his father’s home. If we wish to attain
149 10,3   |           Just as in the life of God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, there
150 10,5   |           Himself in Whom we know the Father and through Whom we receive
151 10,5   |              kingdom where our loving Father, as in the case of the prodigal
152 10,5   |             will keep my word, and my Father and I will love him, and
153 11,2   |      Bulgarians Orthodox?” I asked my father. “Yes! Don’t you know?”
154 11,2   |         anything more, not even to my father whom I deeply respected,
155 11,3   |             who believe in God as the Father of Jesus Christ, faith and
156 11,3   |      Scriptures as Creator, Lord, and Father, a God of glory and majesty,
157 11,4   |            the One whom we address as Father in heaven.~ The earlier
158 11,4   |            truly to the Lord God, our Father in heaven, we would nurture “
159 11,4   |           Trinity, glorified with the Father and the Holy Spirit — save
160 11,4   |            this word I am indebted to Father John Romanides who has regularly