“Culture cannot be a monolithically universal phenomenon without some kind of demonic imposition of one culture over the rest of cultures. Nor is it possible to dream of a universal "Christian culture" without denying the dialectic between history and eschatology… — John D. Zizioulas Copy Share Image
“The question that preoccupied the Fathers was not to know if God existed or not - the existence of God was a "given" for… — John D. Zizioulas Copy Share
“Man is free only within communion. If the Church wishes to be the place of freedom, she must continually place all the 'objects' she… — John D. Zizioulas Copy Share
“The Holy Spirit does not intervene a posteriori within the framework of Christology, as a help in overcoming the distance between an objectively existing… — John D. Zizioulas Copy Share
“One of the basic difficulties inherent in the Greek conception of truth is that it implies that truth can be grasped and formulated by… — John D. Zizioulas Copy Share
“The person is otherness in communion and communion in otherness. The person is an identity that emerges through relationship; it is an 'I' that… — John D. Zizioulas Copy Share
“Without the concept of communion it would not be possible to speak of being. Substance has no ontological content, no true being, apart from… — John D. Zizioulas Copy Share
“I have maintained that precisely because Christian faith regards the nothing from which the world came forth as absolute ‘non-being, creatureliness implies that death… — John D. Zizioulas Copy Share
“The Church is not simply an institution. She is a 'mode of existence,' *a way of being*. The mystery of the Church is deeply… — John D. Zizioulas Copy Share
“Culture cannot be a monolithically universal phenomenon without some kind of demonic imposition of one culture over the rest of cultures. Nor is it… — John D. Zizioulas Copy Share
