The Amphilochia: Volume 1 - Hardcover

by Saint Photios The Great (Author), Tikhon Pino (Translator)

"Many times we are presented with

a difficulty that lacks any kind of

prefatory contextualization, and so,

in the absence of an introduction that lays the

groundwork, the difficulty eludes the solution

that corresponds to it. This is also how we

ought to deal with the question that your

intelligence poses, at least according to one

doctrine and theory. Therefore, we must first

lay the foundation and proceed in an orderly

manner to our answer. Otherwise, the things

that merely appear to be in conflict will come

into conflict in actual fact as well. For many

things often appear to contradict one another,

when in reality they do not. This is because

conflicts do not come about in a vacuum and

by chance, either in the case of words or in the

case of external realities."

- From the Question 1 to The Ampilochia