Episode 35: John Chrysostom: The Language of Holy Scripture, Eunomius & The Light of Tabor, Dr. C. Veniamin

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Episode 35: John Chrysostom: The Language of Holy Scripture, Eunomius & The Light of Tabor, Dr. C. Veniamin

With Episode 34, we come to the end of Volume 1 of our series, Mystical Theology. Through Chrysostom’s appreciation of the Transfiguration of Christ on Tabor, we catch a glimpse of the theological presuppositions, the gnosiology, of one of the greatest commentators of Holy Scripture in the history of Christianity. And we note that his theology, though expressed in somewhat different terms, is the same as that of Athanasius the Great and of Basil the Great, Gregory the Theologian, and Gregory of Nyssa. We also provide a road map for Volume 2 of our Mystical Theology. And finally, by way of conclusion, we add a brief word on Essentialism, Pantheism, and Deification. Other themes touched upon in this episode are included in the Timestamps.

Q&As available in The Professor’s Blog

Recommended background reading: Christopher Veniamin, ed., Saint Gregory Palamas: The Homilies (Dalton PA: 2022); The Orthodox Understanding of Salvation: "Theosis" in Scripture and Tradition (2016); The Transfiguration of Christ in Greek Patristic Literature (2022); 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" webpage.

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1. Question posed: Difference between early and later Arians (00:00:00)

2. Prelude to the Transfiguration (Matt. 16.24-28) (00:02:56)

3. Glory of the Father and glory of Second Coming (Matt. 16.27-28) (00:05:59)

4. The realm of theology vs the realm of the divine economy (00:07:17)

5. The inaccessible nature of God & language of the Liturgy (00:08:12)

6. How does God reveal Himself to man? (00:09:36)

7. Divine “condescension” (00:09:55)

8. “Economies” (00:12:13)

9. The created / uncreated distinction (00:13:28)

10. The Transfiguration (divine economy) (00:14:34)

11. Vision of God = our salvation (00:14:43)

12. Language of Scripture and the Light of Tabor (00:15:13)

13. (Eutropius the Eunuch) (00:15:36)

14. “In a manner befitting God” (theoprepos) (00:17:50)

15. The Bright Cloud of the Transfiguration (00:19:38)

16. The reaction of the three disciples (00:20:13)

17. Lecture plan moving forward (Vol. 2) (00:20:27)

18. Some final thoughts: essentialism and pantheism (00:21:36)

19. The essence-energies distinction is not conceptual (00:22:37)

20. he vision of / participation in God is energetic and a gift - not a natural capability of the soul (00:23:47)

21. Christological confirmation of hypostatic integrity (00:24:23)

22. Communicatio idiomatium in Christ model of our own deification (00:26:13)

23. Appeal (00:26:52)