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This major Orthodox contribution to the study of ethics focuses on hypostasis, or “person,” not only as presented in the theology of the Greek Fathers, but also as it is experienced in the worship, ascetical life, and art of the Orthodox Church. In this perspective, morality is seen not as “an objective measure for evaluating character and behavior, but the dynamic response of personal freedom to...

In the tradition of the Orthodox Church, we define morality through studying the existential truth of man. This means beginning with the ontological question: what is being, and what does it mean for man to be? What relationship is there between what he is as a biological entity and being in itself, the definitive and immutable potential for existence? Does the individual distinctiveness of each human being, the unique, distinct and unrepeatable expression of his physical build, his speech, his thought,
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