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PotOnWheel
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| Posted 7/22/2003 1:16 PM (GMT -6) |   | This article has the title phrase:
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The image the hymns offer of Heaven’s liturgical life is not one of unchanging calm and stillness, but one of unending change and progress.
Ever borne with unalterable longing towards the steep ascent, towards you, O Christ, the summit of all desires, the angelic Powers ceaselessly glorify you.
This remarkable verse presents angelic life as a permanent ascent towards the Godhead, a path that of its nature can never end. This is in accord with the Areopagitic teaching that the angels “are forever making for the heights.”[16] The angels are created as living images of God, and reflect back his divine light.
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www.arimathea.co.uk/heavl.htm
The Heavenly Liturgy in Eastern Orthodox Christian Tradition.
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GregBoyd
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| Posted 7/24/2003 8:16 AM (GMT -6) | | I fell in love with Gregory of Nyssa's description of heaven when I first read it... an eternal ascend by a finite being forever growing in love and knowledge of the infinite source. DYNAMIC.
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