Person and Confession: Truth-Telling as a Hypostatic Fact

When I was a senior in college, working on my undergraduate honors thesis on the theme of primacy in the Roman Catholic and Orthodox Churches, my mentor, the late Father John Meyendorff, told me that I must read Metropolitan John Zizioulas’s Being as Communion. The book had an immediate impact on me, as I could see the truth of the way in which Metropolitan John spoke about personhood in terms of uniqueness and freedom constituted in particular forms of relations, especially when one reflected on our human experience.