Eastern Orthodoxy

Trinity

![The Trinity) by Russian icon painter Andrei Rublev, early 15th century](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1d/AndreyRublev-%D0%A1%D0%B2.%D0%A2%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B8%D1%86%D0%B0-GoogleArtProject.jpg/250px-AndreyRublev-%D0%A1%D0%B2.%D0%A2%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B8%D1%86%D0%B0-GoogleArtProject.jpg)

Trinity

Eastern Orthodox Christians believe in a monotheistic conception of God (God is only one), which is both transcendent) (wholly independent of, and removed from, the material universe) and immanent (involved in the material universe). In discussing God's relationship to his creation, Eastern Orthodox theology distinguishes between God's eternal essence, which is totally transcendent, and his uncreated energies, which is how he reaches humanity. The God who is transcendent and the God who touches mankind are one and the same. That is, these energies are not something that proceed from God or that God produces, but rather they are God himself: distinct, yet inseparable from God's inner being. This view is often called Palamism.

Sin, salvation, and the incarnation

![Harrowing of Hell, mosaic in the Monastery of Osios Loukas, 11th century.](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/05/HosiosLoukas%28narthex%29-Eastwall%2Cright%28HarrowingofHell%2903.jpg/250px-HosiosLoukas%28narthex%29-Eastwall%2Cright%28HarrowingofHell%2903.jpg)

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