https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCwIHnaDfUk (von 2:13:00 bis 3:08:33). The language in which the Church delineates its Orthodoxy seems full of abstract concepts and distinctions, related to substance, persons, essence, energies, natures… This language is, of course, the bread and butter of studious seminarians and of the more zealous catechumens or members of the Church. But what does all this have to do with the "life in Christ", the mystery of our transformation towards the glory of God's Kingdom? Dr Huian, who teaches Systematic Theology and Orthodox Spirituality at the University of Berne, in Switzerland, and at the St Serge Institute of Orthodox Theology in Paris, joins Fr Bogdan Bucur for a dialogue on how the Fathers of the Church help us see doctrine and spirituality as inextricably linked and mutually illuminating.
Huian et al. (Sat,) studied this question.