The problem that Yannaras exposes and addresses is that life (i.e., an ethical life for a Christian) is not about trappings, coverings, appearances or behaviors of Man; Christian life is about the existential Man. If the man beneath the appearances and behaviors is not Christian, is not free and moral, is not living the life God made for him, the appearances and behaviors are irrelevant; indeed appearances and behaviors undermine the ontological truth of existential Man and his salvation. Mans morality is located in his existential freedom. This freedom is a reality that exists and is always being realized by man through his willingness to be as God created him to be; this is the only way for man to be truly human and become a person. The Army advertises Be all that you can be; the Church adds anything less is sin.This is only accomplished in the Church. Individualism is a sin. One becomes a person in relationship: relationship with God and relationship with other persons. The only way for Man to live ethically (for Yannaras life and Christian ethical living are redundant) is for Man to exist in relationship with God the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. To imagine this to be an individual pursuit is to miss the point and to miss the mark. Man is created in community, and so the fulfillment of his ethical self is realized in a redeemed relationship with himself, the world and God. One of reviewers.
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