Sentences with phrase «uncreated light»

God's own splendor is said to radiate through the icon, confronting worshipers with the experience of Uncreated Light.

Prayer for the monks of the Eastern Church focuses on the Jesus Prayer («Lord Jesus Christ, Son of the Living God, have mercy on me a sinner») with the purpose of perceiving the uncreated light of Tabor within the depths of the soul.

The Holy Name of Jesus constantly on their lips mellows the spirit and purifies the soul until, through God's grace, they perceive the uncreated light of Tabor.

Protestants especially wonder if the goal of seeking the uncreated light through contemplation owes more to Neoplatonism than early Christianity.

For Orthodox Christians the uncreated light is the visible energies of God — other examples include the burning bush, the light that transfigured both Moses and Jesus, the light that blinded Paul at his conversion and the fire that descended upon the apostles at Pentecost.

The aim of the Christian life in Orthodoxy is union with God and this happens through experiencing the uncreated light of God and becoming transfigured by it.

He replied: «In this ceremony we are offering created fire and from it comes uncreated light, by the grace of the Holy Spirit... before the ceremony begins, a kantila — a little oil lamp — is placed, already lit, on the tomb.

The mysticism of 14th - century Eastern Christianity, hesychasm, interpreted this light as a manifestation of the uncreated light of God.

The Uncreated Light: An Iconographical Study of the Transfiguration in the Eastern Church.

Icons of the transfiguration aim to both portray the theology of the uncreated light and facilitate our participation in it.

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which is the ultimate source and cradle of all existence and the «uncreated and ineffable Supreme»... At is beyond time and space, beyond form or any experiential differentiation, and beyond polarities such as good and evil, light and darkness, stability and motion, and agony and ecstasy.