"All
the truths of Orthodoxy emerge from one truth and converge on one truth,
infinite and eternal. That truth is the God-man Christ. If you
experience any truth of Orthodoxy to its limit, you will inevitably
discover that its kernel is the God-man Christ. In fact, all the truths
of Orthodoxy are nothing other than different aspects of the one
Truth--the God-man Christ.
Orthodoxy
is Orthodoxy by reason of the God-man, and not by reason of anything
else or anyone else. Hence another name for Orthodoxy is God-manhood. In
it nothing exists through man or by man, but everything comes from the
God-man and exists through the God-man. This means that man experiences
and finds out about the fundamental eternal truth of life and the world
only with the help of the God-man, in the God-man. And it means
something else: man learns the complete truth about man, about the
purpose and meaning of his existence only through the God-man. Outside
of Him a man turns into an apparition, into a scarecrow, into nonsense.
Instead of a man you find the dregs of a man, the fragments of a man,
the scraps of a man. Therefore, true manhood lies only in God-manhood;
and no other manhood exists under heaven.
