Concept

Eastern Orthodox theology

Overview

Eastern Orthodox theology is the theology particular to the Eastern Orthodox Church. It is characterized by monotheistic Trinitarianism, belief in the Incarnation of the divine Logos or only-begotten Son of God, cataphatic theology with apophatic theology, a hermeneutic defined by a sacred Tradition, a catholic ecclesiology, a theology of the person, and a principally recapitulative and therapeutic soteriology.

Overview adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0; see the article history for authors).

Philosophers who discussed Eastern Orthodox theology

• Nikolay Lossky

Related ideas

• Eastern Orthodox Church
• Jesus
• God in Christianity
• Fresco
• Greece
• Gnosticism
• Abrahamic religions
• Library of Congress
• Monotheism
• Moses
• Cappadocian Fathers
• Augustine of Hippo
• New Testament
• Thomas Aquinas
• Anselm of Canterbury
• Patristics
• Immanence
• Hypostasis (philosophy and religion)
• Christian theology
• Sin
• Saint
• Pavel Florensky
• Problem of evil
• Theodicy

Place in the tradition

Part of Mysticism.

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