Unity of the Church in the image of the Holy Trinity (end)
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This article constitutes the conclusion of a multi-part study devoted to the unity of the Church considered in the light of the Trinitarian mystery. Father Sophrony develops a theological and anthropological reflection grounded in the high-priestly prayer of John 17, according to which the unity of believers must reflect the unity of the divine Persons. The author argues that any reductive conception of the human vocation compromises both ecclesiology and soteriology: to diminish the Creator's design for humanity is not humility, but theological error. Drawing on Gregory of Nyssa, Maximus the Confessor, and Georges Florovsky, the article defends an anthropology of deification in which each human hypostasis is called to bear the fullness of divino-human being. The principal contribution lies in the articulation between the Trinitarian structure, patristic anthropology, and the contemporary ecumenical question of ecclesial unity.
This article has not been translated yet — it is available in its French version here.
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