PHILOKALIA MINISTRIES

On Repentance, Hypostasis, and the Cosmic Vision in Christ “When we ourselves have become images of Him, we ‘overcome the world’, we rise above the world’s level, we become cosmic and even supra-cosmic—in the measure of our likeness to Christ.” — Saint Sophrony of Essex ⸻ What is expressed above is precisely the inner logic of the Fathers when they speak of person , hypostasis , and the vision of Christ. What Saint Sophrony of Essex describes is not an exaltation of the relig