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God in the creation of the human person united the spiritual and the material, the invisible and the visible elements of the created world: "Taking a body from the matter that he had previously created, and placing in it the breath of life that comes from himself, which Scripture terms the intelligent soul and the image of God, he (God) formed man as a second cosmos, a great universe within a little one.
Becoming Human Through Relationships - Theology - Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America. One becomes a person in self-transcendence, the movement of freedom toward communion.
Becoming Human Through Relationships - Theology - Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of AmericaTheir existence is verified in the relationships that they have with one another, with nature and ultimately with God. Thus, a person is not an individual but an open and ecstatic reality, refers to significant others for his or her existence.
Becoming Human Through Relationships - Theology - Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of AmericaPersons are unique and unrepeatable because their being is formed through and in relationships of love that allow difference to exist without fragmenting the unity of communion that love develops.
Becoming Human Through Relationships - Theology - Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of AmericaHuman nature contains in itself an irreducible and inseparable diversity of divine and human, earthly and heavenly, material and spiritual elements and because of these human beings have as their vocation the uniting of the created world with its uncreated God. This mediatonal vocation of human personhood is realized in its fullest possible manner in Jesus Christ, in whom humanity and creation are forever united with God by the grace of the Holy Spirit. For this reason Christ is the archetype of what it means to be human, the mirror in which one sees reflected one’s own true face and vocation.
Becoming Human Through Relationships - Theology - Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of AmericaHuman beings are not created to dominate nature since nature is their life. In fact, it is their task to be like the world, diverse but yet united.
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