It is only through our relationship with other persons that we ourselves become fully personal. The early Christians used to say Unus Christianus, nullus Christianus: one Christian, isolated from other Christians, excluded from the communion of the Church, is no Christian at all. We can extend the aphorism: Una persona, nulla persona: one person, subsisting alone, lacking any bond of fellowship with others, is not a real person. Personhood is social, or it is nothing.
Kallistos Ware, Metropolitan of Diokleia
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