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Dogmatic Theology

• The Hesychastic Synods of the Fourteenth Century as the Ninth OEcumenical Synod of the Orthodox Church (English pdf, 1.2 MB; Greek pdf, 594 KB)

• The Concept of the Generation of the Son of God in St. Hilary of Poitiers’ Commentary on the Gospel of St. Matthew (English pdf, 204 KB)

• Orthodoxy and Religion (English pdf; Greek pdf, 174 KB)

-by Father John Romanides († 1.11.2001)

• The Soteriological Significance of the Human Nature of Christ (On the occasion of the Great Feast of the Nativity of Christ) (Greek pdf, 145 KB)

- by Professor Andreas Theodorou [†2004]

• The Person of the Theotokos in Protestant Theology (English pdf, 252 KB; Greek pdf, 100 KB)

- By Protopriest Basileios Georgopoulos (M.Th.)

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Why Did God Become Man?

The Unconditionality of the Divine Incarnation

- Contents (English pdf, 64 KB; Greek pdf, 47 KB)

Part I

- Text I: Protopresbyter Georges Florovsky

“Cur Deus Homo? The Motive of the Incarnation”» (1957) (English pdf, 175 KB; Greek pdf, pdf, 161 KB)

- Text II: Panagiotes Nellas

“The Archetype of Humanity is the Incarnate Word” (1979) (English pdf, 203 KB; Greek pdf, pdf, 130 KB)

- Text III: Panagiotes Nellas

“Redemption or Deification? Anselm’s Question, ‘Why Did God Become Man?’ and Nicolas Cabasilas” (1983) (English pdf, 328 KB; Greek pdf, 202 KB)

- Text IV: Metropolitan Hierotheos of Naupaktos and Hagios Blasios

“The Unconditionality of the Divine Incarnation” (1992) (English pdf, 177 KB; Greek pdf, 117 KB)

- Text V: Hieromonk Artemije Radosavljević (now Bishop of Raška and Prizren)

“Deification as the End and Fulfillment of Salvation According to St. Maximos the Confessor” (English pdf, 248 KB; Greek pdf, 205 KB)

Part II

- Text I: St. Nikodemos the Hagiorite

“The Whole Cosmos Came Into Being for the Sake of Our Lady, the Theotokos, and Our Lady, the Theotokos Came Into Being for the Sake of Our Lord Jesus Christ” (pdf)

(from Unseen Warfare)

- Text II: St. Nikodemos the Hagiorite

“A Defense of My Annotation Concerning Our Lady, the Theotokos, in the Book Unseen Warfare” (pdf)

(from A Handbook of Spiritual Counsel)

- Text III: St. Nikodemos the Hagiorite

“The Incarnation was the Good Will and the Antecedent Will of God” (pdf)

(from A Handbook of Spiritual Counsel)

- Text IV: St. Nikodemos the Hagiorite

“The Mystery of the Incarnation was the Antecedent Will of God”” (pdf)

(from Commentary on the Seven Catholic Epistles)

- Text V: St. Gregory Palamas

“All Things Were Directed Towards the Theandric OEconomy” (pdf)

(from “Homily LX”)

- Text VI: St. Maximos the Confessor

“This is the Blessed End for Which All Things Were Created” (pdf)

(from Questions to Thalassios Concerning Sacred Scripture, LX)