Anyhow, the philistinism of shunning the uses of the mind is as reprehensible as to overuse it to analyse Mysteries beyond its ability. When the Greeks underwent their own Dark Ages as the result of Slavic invasions and subjection to the Turks, the center of Orthodoxy moved to Moscow, where God had providentially ensured the suitability of Slavonic for forming and propagating the Gospel. Russian writers like Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, Checkov, and a number of Confessors under Communism have become part of our English-language culture. The challenge for the Orthodox is clear. The time is ripe.
Energy is a basic form of matter in the paradigms of science.