Resolution of Questions 114

Summary

Fr. Athanasios Mytilinaios teaches that worldly injustice arises from the human misuse of freedom, which God permits within history while reserving both partial judgments now and the General Judgment to come. He rejects the claim that Christianity has failed for want of social justice, insisting that its heart is the Resurrection of Christ and the resurrection of the dead. Drawing on John 21, he argues that Christ spoke hypothetically about Saint John the Theologian, and he explains the Holy Protection of the Theotokos over the faithful. He reads Adam's work and guarding in Paradise as inner spiritual labor toward deification, defines proairesis as the power to answer yes or no to Christ who knocks at the door, and commends the spiritual father over the psychologist for self-knowledge, since guilt is healed through confession.