Historical events repeat themselves, but not exactly, but in various combinations; philosophical ideas, already expressed and seemingly exhausted in antiquity, return - in new versions - and form new systems, behind which, however, we find the same - repeating - concepts. In this respect, history is similar to an unwinding spring: each subsequent turn has a larger area of the circle. The entire history of mankind is, as it were, compressed and projected in the Holy Scriptures. There we can find answers to questions concerning the main ideas of the universe, and precisely because of the enormity of their volume and energy intensity (which can be compared to the density of diamond) these fundamental ideas have a general character. For the Holy Fathers, the light of the Bible is somewhat rarefied, as if refracted through a prism, but at the same time more specific; therefore, the Orthodox Church does not separate biblical and patristic theology from each other - it reads the Bible through the eyes of the Holy Fathers. Source: Contents: From the publisherFrom the authorThe Fall of the ProudThe Book of the Hieromartyr Cyprian of Carthage"The Book of the Unity of the Church" as an exposure of modern schismsPart IPart IIPart IIIPart IV