These questions are understood in light of the two great mysteries of the faith: the Trinity and the incarnation of the Son of God. In Lossky s articulation, these are not abstract theories, but living and vivid realities. Emphasizing the thought of the Fathers, Lossky actualizes the latter in a creative fashion through a critical reflection namely on the theme of the person attempting through an approach that is faithful and free, to express the elements of the ecclesial tradition in a contemporary language. In the wake of the Fathers, Lossky linked dogma narrowly to the spiritual life, rejecting the false and ruinous split between spirituality and theology, hence this term mystical theology (from the Introduction).
This dynamic tension between theology and spirituality is maintained in the Orthodox Church, which, as Lossky put it, is not an element of world history among so many others, but the very center of the universe and its history, the center in connection with which the historic process in its entirety as well as each particular destiny receives its definitive meaning. Although the Church is in the world, she is not a constituent part of it, for she contains what the world cannot contain: the fullness of uncreated grace.
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THE NECESSARY SECOND VOLUME OF LOSSKY’S THEOLOGY
THE NECESSARY SECOND VOLUME OF LOSSKY’S THEOLOGY 1. TWO VOLUMES: LOSSKY WROTE “MYSTICAL THEOLOGY” AS HIS “THEOLOGY-BEYOND -CONCEPT”. He wrote “DOGMATIC-THEOLOGY as his “conceptual-theology” it completes his dialectic. Both volumes are essential 2. ANAKAPHALAIOSIS = “recapitualation”; which is Lossky’s version of “theosis-reunification”’ as the “path-of-salvation” 3. THE GOLD NUGGET = in this manuscript is his chapter 5 CHRISTOLOGY; And his position that believers are taken-up into the “HUPOSTASIS-PERSONHOOD” of Christ; we share in that “unity”; we are “IN-CHRIST” 4. READ “MYSTICAL THEOLOGY” FIRST = then tackle this volume; that is the proper order to take 5. 5 stars: submitted 10-23-2020
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THE NECESSARY SECOND VOLUME OF LOSSKY’S THEOLOGY
THE NECESSARY SECOND VOLUME OF LOSSKY’S THEOLOGY 1. TWO VOLUMES: LOSSKY WROTE “MYSTICAL THEOLOGY” AS HIS “THEOLOGY-BEYOND -CONCEPT”. He wrote “DOGMATIC-THEOLOGY as his “conceptual-theology” it completes his dialectic. Both volumes are essential 2. ANAKAPHALAIOSIS = “recapitualation”; which is Lossky’s version of “theosis-reunification”’ as the “path-of-salvation” 3. THE GOLD NUGGET = in this manuscript is his chapter 5 CHRISTOLOGY; And his position that believers are taken-up into the “HUPOSTASIS-PERSONHOOD” of Christ; we share in that “unity”; we are “IN-CHRIST” 4. READ “MYSTICAL THEOLOGY” FIRST = then tackle this volume; that is the proper order to take 5. 5 stars: submitted 10-23-2020
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Item ordered arrived promptly, intact, and as offered. A classic text.
