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  • Members: 331
  • Category: Interfaith
  • Founded: Jan 23, 2001
  • Language: English
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We are a group of people who admire the vision and thought of Paulos Mar Gregorios Metropolitan. He was a great Christian philosopher, very active in the ecumenical and inter-religious movements. He challenged humankind to think in terms of one global state in which all religions flow together. What follows is from an introduction to the thought of Mar Gregorios written by Rev. Dr. K.M. George.
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For Guru Gregorios the locus of the vision is the Kingdom of God. Presence of God is the presence of the good. Where the good is there is the kingdom of God. Listen to the rhapsody of his philokalia, love of the good/beautiful:

“I bow before the good wherever it shows - in people of different faiths and religions, in people who claim to believe in no God, in birds and animals, in trees and flowers, in mountains and rivers, in air and sky, in sun and moon, in sculpture and paintings, in music and art, in the smile of the infant and in the wisdom of the sage, in the blush of dawn and in the gorgeous sunset.”

The basis of Gregorian theological reflection is the Christian affirmation of the union of God and Humanity in Jesus Christ, the incarnate Son of God. Christ is the prototype of the mediator human being (anthropos methorios). The notion of humanity as mediator, known to Greek philosophers, comes in its Christian version from his venerable teacher Gregory of Nyssa, the 4th century philosopher and theologian of profound insights.

Freedom is the pivotal category in Gregorian theology. “Freedom is also a central value for any new civilization.” The restlessness that one noticed in the person and work of Bishop Gregorios arose from his constant search for true freedom. He was never enslaved by any particular thought form or paradigm of reality. But with sensitivity and respect he was ever on the look-out for newly emerging theories of reality and projections of the future of our world.

http://www.paulosmargregorios.info

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2008 34 33 28 19 38 2 19 52 9 52 33 15
2007 43 54 93 21 29 37 26 18 12 10 19 9
2006 61 54 10 13 14 6 12 13 23 22 39 25
2005 31 32 38 33 46 22 15 35 68 87 64 32
2004 46 93 73 61 63 33 23 55 91 73 52 70
2003 62 24 66 24 25 49 208 162 48 30 65 66
2002 34 43 49 38 44 32 24 33 37 57 29 30
2001 8 33 26 19 26 26 27 17 46 27 28 44

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