AN ESSAY ON THE MYSTICAL THEOLOGY OF THE EASTERN CHURCH

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The author of "The Meaning of Life" (Moscow, 1918), who died in Russia at the beginning of the revolution, is unknown in the West. He is the only "Sophian" whose theological thought has remained fully Orthodox.

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St. Irenaeus of Lyons. Against Heresies, V, prel.: PG, t 7, col. 1120: St. Athanasius the Great. Homily on the Incarnation of God the Word, 54: PG, t. 25, col. 192B; St. Gregory the Theologian. Roem. dogmatica, X, 5-9: PG, t. 37, col. 465; St. Gregory of Nyssa. Long Catechetical Homily, 25: PG, t. 45, col. 65 D.

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PG, t.150.

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PG, t. 90, col. 621 AB. 213

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PG, t. 91, col. 1308.

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Ibid., col .1309

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H. U. von Balthasar. Kosmische Liturgie, s. 267-268.

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PG, t. 90, col. 1108 AB.

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PG, t. 94, col. 1464 A.

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PG, t. 123, col. 1156 p.

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PG, t. 3, col. 640 P; 648 D; 1072 V.

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Three words about Wisdom, to Bishop. Ignatius (according to the RCP. 431 of the Synodal Library in Moscow), ed. Ep. Arsenius, Greek text and Russk. transl., Novgorod, 1898.

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PG, t. 94, col. 1029, 1032.

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Creations, vol. III, p. 101; Christian Reading, 1842, IV, p. 395.

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Discourse on the Entry of the Most Holy Theotokos into the Temple.Published in the collection of sermons of St. Gregory Palamas. Athens, 1861, p. 216.

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M. Jugie. Homelies mariales bizantmes. Patrologia orientalis, XIX, fasc. 3, Paris, 1925, p. 463.

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PG, t. 94, col. 985 BC - 988 A.

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