Athanasius the Great, Part 3: On God the Word, 1, in “Mystical Theology”, Prof. C. Veniamin

Описание: Series: Mystical Theology
Episode 13: Athanasius the Great, Part 3: On God the Word, 1

Introducing the theology and spiritual life of the Orthodox Church, with particular reference to the Holy Bible and the witness of the Church Fathers, past and present.

In Episode 13 of our “Mystical Theology” series, we turn to St. Athanasius’ masterful defense of the Orthodox Faith, in his great works “Against the Gentiles” and “On the Incarnation of the Word”, and then in his “Against the Arians”, in which he presents the mystery of the Divine Economy culminating in the “enfleshment” of God the Word Himself.

Themes covered in this podcast include creation in and through the Logos “out of nothing”, the “theologia – economia” distinction, the fundamental difference between “generation” or “begetting” (from the essence of God the Father) and “creation” (by the will and council of God), and the mystery of the Oneness of God the Holy Trinity in divine revelation.

Q&As related to Episode 13 available in The Professor’s Blog: https://mountthabor.com/blogs/the-pro...

Recommended background reading: Christopher Veniamin, ed., Saint Gregory Palamas: The Homilies (Dalton PA: 2022): https://mountthabor.com/products/sain... The Orthodox Understanding of Salvation: "Theosis" in Scripture and Tradition: https://mountthabor.com/products/the-... (2016); and Metropolitan Hierotheos Vlachos, Empirical Dogmatics of the Orthodox Catholic Church: According to the Spoken Teaching of Father John Romanides, Vol. 1 (2012), Vol. 2 (repr. ed. 2020).

Further bibliography may be found in our Scholar's Corner (https://mountthabor.com/pages/the-pro....

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TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Intro: Recap of Arian argument
3:58 Response of Athanasius
4:59 Cosmological problem
5:50 Early Apologists
6:47 Origen
7:32 Florovsky paper
8:31 “Against the Gentiles” & “On the Incarnation”
8:44 Historical Background: Greek & Roman
14:21 “Theologia” & “Economia”
16:15 Creation and mutability
17:33 Two forms of “corruption”
18:44 “Against the Arians”
21:29 Generation and Creation
26:02 Will and necessity (“physis”)
28:25 Being & Acting
29:32 Monarchy of the Father
31:27 The Holy Trinity is One Being
32:51 Every revelation is of God’s Oneness and Threeness
33:55 Conclusion: the Angel Logos
34:24 Appeal for support

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: I wish to express my indebtedness to the spoken and written traditions of Sts Silouan and Sophrony the Athonites, Fr. Zacharias Zacharou, Fr. Kyrill Akon, Fr. Raphael Noica, Fr. Symeon Brüschweiler; Fr. Pavlos Englezakis, Fr. Georges Florovsky, Prof. Constantine Scouteris, Prof. George Mantzarides, Prof. John Fountoulis, and particularly to Mtp Kallistos Ware, Prof. Panayiotes Chrestou, Fr. John Romanides, and Mtp Hierotheos Vlachos: certain sentences and phrases utilized in these presentations are taken directly from my notes of some of their lectures. My presentations have been enriched by all of the above sources, owing to the adoption of certain structures, lists, schemata, and the paraphrasing of themes taken from them. Responsibility for the content of my presentations is of course mine alone. ©Christopher Veniamin 2024