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Filioque. Spiritusque?
Regarding the filioque: Fr Paul Evdokimov has suggested adding a spiritusque to the western creed:
To render the western conception of the Filioque as acceptable as possible to the Orthodox, we can say that the Father gives to the Son the energy of spiration, not of origin but of manifestation. But in this [...]
Personal Experience Of The Holy Spirit According To The Greek Fathers
No one can be a Christian at second-hand: such is the frequently repeated teaching of the Fathers. Holy Tradition does not signify merely the mechanical and exterior acceptance of truths formulated in the distant past, but it is in the words of the Russian theologian Vladimir Lossky — nothing else than ‘the life of the Holy Spirit in the Church here and now, at this present moment…
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