The Trinity, heart of our life
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This article by Kallistos Ware, drawn from a paper presented at the fifth Orthodox Congress of Western Europe, offers an in-depth theological reflection on the human person understood as the image of the Triune God. Drawing on the Church Fathers, Scripture, and modern thinkers such as Berdyaev, Dostoevsky, and Solzhenitsyn, the author develops an Orthodox anthropology articulated around several constitutive dimensions of the divine image: freedom, the irreducible uniqueness of each person, the dynamism of growth toward likeness (_theosis_), and the vocation to communion. The central contribution of the article lies in the articulation between Trinitarian dogma and Christian anthropology: because God is a communion of distinct persons, the human being is authentically fulfilled only in relation to others, through a love capable of extending to self-sacrifice. This Trinitarian perspective also grounds a critique of individualism and a demand for social justice.
This article has not been translated yet — it is available in its French version here.
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