Trinitarian Mystagogy of the Sacraments
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This article by Father Boris Bobrinskoy, drawn from a paper presented at the Saint-Serge Liturgical Weeks in 1992, offers a theological study of sacramentality in the Orthodox tradition through the lens of Trinitarian mystagogy. The author examines the initiatory function of the sacraments, referred to in Orthodoxy as "holy mysteries," showing that they are not limited to promising the Kingdom to come, but already communicate its first fruits in the present. Drawing on the Fathers — notably Basil of Caesarea, Nicholas Cabasilas, and Hippolytus of Rome — he articulates the Trinitarian structure of the confession of faith with the baptismal and eucharistic rites. The main contribution of the article is to provide a theological foundation for the unity between sacramental celebration, Trinitarian revelation, and divinization, while critiquing reductive, symbolist, or eschatologistic conceptions, as exemplified by Theodore of Mopsuestia.
This article has not been translated yet — it is available in its French version here.
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