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Orthodox teaching about the Holy Trinity confines the true Christian doctrine from other foreign teachings. Only this type of Divinity is saving; it is the basis of the communion of love to the world for eternity. Only with Its help we have eternal life and power. The Trinity as a tripersonal reality and as Persons in a relationship of love is the only model for us. The Holy Trinity is the basis of our Salvation. It is the Sacrament of the perfect unity of distinct Persons. “Only a perfect community of supreme people can feed, with her endless and perfect love, our thirst for love towards it and between us. Love is not content to be only thought but also to receive and to be received.”1
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Dumitru Stăniloae, “The Holy Trinity: Structure of Supreme Love” [Romanian Text], Studii Teologice 5–6 (1970): 41.
St. Gregory of Nazianzus, The Five Theological Orations [Romanian Text], trans. Dumitru Stăniloae (Bucharest: Anastasia, 1993), 53.
“The Person is defined as reporting and as relation and it defines a report and a relation. The main semantic content of the word excludes the possibility to interpret the person as individuality in itself outside the relation’s space,” Ch. Yannaras, Persoană şi Eros, trans. Zenaida Luca (Bucharest: Anastasia, 2000), 21.
St. Basil the Great, Adversus Eunomium, V (Patrologia Graeca, ed. Jacques Paul Migne [Paris: Imprimerie Catholique, 1857–66; hereafter PG] 29, 772B).
Dumitru Stăniloae, “The Essence and the Hypostasis in the Holy Trinity at St. Basil the Great” [Romanian Text], Ortodoxia 1 (1979): 55–56.
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Himcinschi, M. (2016). Some Considerations regarding the Cappadocian Trinitarian Ontology. In: Dumitraşcu, N. (eds) The Ecumenical Legacy of the Cappadocians. Pathways for Ecumenical and Interreligious Dialogue. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-50269-8_3
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