Homilies on the Orthodox Faith · Lecture 012
Fatherhood in the Spirit
A lecture by Nikolaos Sotiropoulos · Δείτε στα Ελληνικά
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Summary
Nikolaos Sotiropoulos, in the third of his homilies on worship in spirit, contrasts the more external and preparatory worship of the Old Testament with the worship in spirit and truth of the New, which proceeds from the renewal of the human person. David's plea for a clean heart and a right spirit is presented as the longing fulfilled in Ezekiel's promise of cleansing water, a new heart, and God's own Spirit, while Christ's words to Nicodemus show that entrance into the Kingdom requires rebirth through water and the Spirit, which the Church knows as Baptism. He insists that Baptism is no mere ceremony but a saving mystery, because its water is joined to the Holy Spirit, and confesses the Spirit not as an impersonal force but as the divine Person of the Trinity, consubstantial with the Father and the Son. After Pentecost the Spirit dwells within believers, making them temples of God, renewing the mind, cleansing the heart, gathering the nous in prayer, and granting compunction and adoption.
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