Exchange of Life: The Love of God in the Orthodox Christian Tradition

It is surely a challenge to attempt to address a group of people of differing faith traditions using as little “in house” language as possible. In addition, every exchange of faith and faith experience in the format of a conference forum can only operate within an acknowledged and confessed distance from the faith and faith experience itself. This much is known. Nevertheless, the challenge here is to try to outline some of the concerns, the quests, and the sensitivities that are important for the Eastern Christian tradition in a way that is based on our sense of faith, while at the same time trying to open up this faith. Therefore, it is necessary to refrain, as much as possible, from a systematic or historical exposition of Eastern Christianity and instead touch on what concepts such as spirituality, knowledge of God, spiritual life, and salvation mean for this tradition. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.