Essence energy distinction

1. Description and Theology

The essence energy distinction is the dogmatic theological formula of the Orthodox Church, in accordance with the Sixth (Seventh Century) and Ninth (Fourteenth Century) Ecumenical Councils. Such a dogmatic teaching is in regards to the one, eternal, and absolute Godhead being distinguished by the one divine and eternal essence by which the three Hypostases/Persons in Triune unity share and the uncreated energy of the essence. There logically can be no communication between God and man without the essence energy distinction, for both the Fathers and the Councils, and even the scripture, defines the essence of God as incommunicable and therefore, apothéōsis (participating in the essence) would be regarded as heresy within Orthodoxy. Without the essence energy distinction, God is only communicable and participable in regards to his relation with man, by his created effects, yet that which is created cannot be perfect according to St.Maximus of the Confessor in the Tenth Ambigua to John, for coming into being from non-being in of itself is an actualization/operation, and thus, and alteration within time and that which can be altered cannot be perfect.