Sublime

We need time because we need the motion of moving toward one another. Yannaras’s point is that the horizon of being (its range of experience and therefore its very constitution) is bound in the communion of persons. “The person ‘defines’ the disclosure of being, while time ‘measures’ this disclosure.”

But from the context of ministry (as a hypostatic and kenotic reality that brings forth theosis) there can be no separation between the work and person of Jesus. Work, for Jesus, is to minister to humanity by being a minister (the “although” is the “because”).

doing the Japanese and I the English, with background improvisations by Vincent Delgado on the koto and shakuhachi.

Ocean Poet

Gunabhadra,