have the God-man dwelling within it. When we encounter Christ, we encounter the great mystery of the universe—the God who is man, the man who is God. Here is the point at which Orthodox Christianity parts ways with rationalism, because no matter how hard we try, no matter how much we speculate, no matter how smart we are, we cannot define the God who dwelt in a human womb and took flesh from that mother. And here also is the point at which we part ways from certain kinds of Far Eastern mysticism,
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