Among the gifts which God bestowed upon mankind, in creating humanity in His Image and according to His Likeness, were those of creativity and intelligence. These divinely bestowed and intricately interrelated gifts permeated every aspect of the human experience. As God spoke all things into existence, Adam, being made in the Image of God, likewise expresses his intelligent and creative faculties through speech, being invited by God to name all the creatures in the Garden, and thus, in a...

“Of the several paths that lead to virtue, the broadest and the most promising is the way of imitation.” [1] In a short article on the pursuit of virtue, the renowned theologian Robert Louis Wilken rightly emphasizes the importance of imitation to the human experience and its bearings on spiritual life: “without examples, without imitation, there can be no human life or civilization, no art or culture, no virtue or holiness.” [2] In every aspect of human life, imitation and apprenticeship...

The Apocalypse of John, whom Tradition names the “Liturgist,” [1] is inherently a book of worship, outlining for the believers the...