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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...

first, and this corrupted his nature with it, by rejecting the grace of freedom from passions, and so sin came to be. The first and culpable act was the fall of the intention from good to evil: but the second, the blameless alteration of nature from incorruption to corruption, happened because of the first. For there were two sins committed by the forefather when he transgressed the divine commandment: the one was culpable, but the other was blameless since it had been caused by the one which was
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