Orthodox Arts Journal
Enjoy this article on the discussion of Divine beauty and the usage of Iconography in Eastern/Orthodox Christianity.
I found this quote intriguing.
"Nicodemus the Agiorite, the compiler of the Philokalia, confirms this central role of choice when he wrote in the preface of his work:
[God] thus made man a watchman over the material creation and an initiate of the spiritual, according to Gregory, the great theologian. What indeed was man? Truly, nothing other than an image and a full Icon of all graces created by God. God then gave him the law regarding His order, as a test of freedom …. If man kept order, he was to receive as a reward the enhypostasized grace of deification, becoming god and so radiate pure light for all eternity."
Enjoy this article on the discussion of Divine beauty and the usage of Iconography in Eastern/Orthodox Christianity.
I found this quote intriguing.
"Nicodemus the Agiorite, the compiler of the Philokalia, confirms this central role of choice when he wrote in the preface of his work:
[God] thus made man a watchman over the material creation and an initiate of the spiritual, according to Gregory, the great theologian. What indeed was man? Truly, nothing other than an image and a full Icon of all graces created by God. God then gave him the law regarding His order, as a test of freedom …. If man kept order, he was to receive as a reward the enhypostasized grace of deification, becoming god and so radiate pure light for all eternity."
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