It is essential to make a distinction between dogma and mystery. The mystery of the Holy Trinity
is experienced, to the extent that this is possible, by the glorified human
being and is different from the dogma, which is the rational formulation
concerning the mystery of the Holy Trinity or the revelation. This distinction
is fundamental to Orthodox theology.
”God is always a
mystery. The mystery of the Holy Trinity must be separated from the dogma of
the Holy Trinity. The dogma is not the same as the mystery.”