How can we distinguish between
what we are, who we are and what characteristic and virtues we have? Are they
different? Or do they explain the same thing, i.e. our ontology as people and
persons? Can this be said about God too? Christos Yannaras explains, in regards
to God:
‘The identification of being with
the freedom of love – of that love which forms being hypostases – reveals that
the truth of the ethos or morality is equivalent to the truth of being. When we
speak of the unity and communion of the three divine persons, we are referring
to God’s mode of being, which is the ethos of divine life. And the ethos of God is
identical with His being. When the Christian revelation declares that “God is
love” (1 Jn 4:16), it is not referring to one among many properties of God’s
“behaviour,” but to what God is as
the fullness of trinitarian and personal communion.’[1]
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