Our objective, as Christians, is
the communion and union between us, creation, with God, the Creator of all. If
this is achieved, then we become Saints, we reach our true purpose in life, in
this life and the next. Therefore are goal is to be in communion with the
Trinitatian God, as St Peter claimed ‘partakers of the divine nature.’ Vladimir
Lossky explains this further:
‘The revelation of God the Holy
Trinity – Father, Son and Holy Spirit is the basis of all Christian theology;
it is, indeed, theology itself, in the sense in which that word was understood
by the Greek Fathers, for whom theology most
commonly stood for the mystery of the Trinity revealed to the Church. Moreover,
it is not only the foundation, but also the supreme object of theology; for,
according to the teaching of Evagrius Ponticus (developed by St Maximus), to
know the mystery of the Trinity in its fullness is to enter into perfect union
with God and to attain to the deification of the human creature: in other words,
to enter into the divine life, the very life of the Holy Trinity, and to
become, in St Peter’s words, ‘partakers of the divine nature’ – θείας κοινωνοί φύσεως. Trinitarian theology is
thus a theology of union, a mystical theology which appeals to experience, and
which presupposes a continuous and progressive series of changes in created
nature, a more and more intimate communion of the human person with the Holy
Trinity.’[1]
[1]
Lossky, Vladimir, The Mystical Theology
of the Eastern Church, (Cambridge, James Clarke& Co.Ltd., 1991), p. 67.
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