"You are in the world but not of this world"

This article is the transcript of an inaugural lecture delivered at an orthodox theology congress. Drawing on the patristic adage "God became man so that man might become God," the author develops a reflection on the tension between belonging to the world and transcending its conflictual logic. He analyzes the human condition as structured by antagonistic polarities that only law and political power can partially contain. Faced with this fundamental conflictuality, the theology of deification offers an alternative perspective: God reconciles man with himself and with the cosmos, where human institutions can only limit its effects. The article thus provides an ecclesiological reading of Christian freedom, distinguishing the Church as the body of the risen Christ from any form of authoritarian institution, and highlighting the liberating role of the Holy Spirit.