Beauty of the liturgy, beauty of the world

This article explores the connection between liturgical beauty and the beauty of the created world from the perspective of Orthodox theology. Olga Lossky-Laham adopts both a reflective and literary approach, interweaving her experience as a novelist with a theological meditation on Eastern Christian aesthetics. The central idea is that Orthodox liturgy does not merely celebrate the beauty of the world, but reveals its deeper vocation: to be transfigured by divine energies. The author shows how novel writing can serve as a contemporary vehicle for expressing this theological reality, thereby joining the Orthodox tradition of beauty as a pathway to the divine. The article's contribution lies in its original articulation between literary creation and the doctrine of divine energies, opening a dialogue between Orthodox aesthetics, cosmology, and soteriology.