Episode 42: Caveat on Trinity and Grace of God, Part 6 of Cyril of Alexandria, C. Veniamin

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Episode 42: Caveat on Trinity and Grace of God, Part 6 of Cyril of Alexandria, C. Veniamin

In Episode 42: Caveat on Trinity and Grace of God, Part 6 of Cyril of Alexandria, Dr. Veniamin pauses his presentations on the Christology of Cyril of Alexandria, in order to bring back in to focus the Cappadocian understanding of hypostasis, upon which Cyril bases his emphasis on the oneness of Christ, and also the uncreated character of divine grace. For a list of the various themes contained therein, see the Timestamps below.

Q&As available in The Professor’s Blog

Special thanks to the video of Fr. Dimitru Staniloae, on the difference between western and eastern Christianity.

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).

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1. Augustine and the “Persons” of the Holy Trinity (see our Episodes 24,26,27) (00:00:00)

2. The Cappadocian contribution (see our Episode 19) (00:02:56)

3. Hypostatic “modes of existence” (00:04:17)

4. “Only-begotten Son” (Gk. monogenès, Jn 3.16) (00:04:38)

5. The Holy Spirit “proceeds [Gk. ekporeúetai] from the Father”, Jn 15.26 (00:05:17)

6. Holy Spirit in Creed of the Second Ecumenical Council in 381 (00:05:40)

7. The Hypostatic characteristics of each of the divine Hypostases (00:08:16)

8. The “Monarchy” of the Father (see our Episode 18) (00:09:26)

9. The Father “causes” the Hypostases of the Son and Spirit (00:09:54)

10. The Father gives His essence to the Son and Spirit (00:11:02)

11. “Mode of existence” (Gk. trópos hypárxeos) (00:12:17)

12. “Unbegotten”, “Begotten”, “Proceeding” (00:12:44)

13. That God is One and Three at once (Gregory the Theologian) (00:14:09)

14. “Godhead” or “Divinity” (Gk. theótês) (00:15:04)

15. The grace (Gk. cháris, χάρις) - Fr. John Romanides (00:16:22)

16. Catholics and Protestants believe in “created grace” (00:17:08)

17. “Churchianity”: Protestant reaction (00:17:58)

18. Problem: Protestants still have the doctrine of created grace (00:20:51)

19. Reaction to absence of God: Pentecostals and charismatics (00:22:18)

20. Curious but necessary abandonment of theology by Pentecostals and Charismatics (00:23:09)

21. Orthodoxy is about the presence of God (00:23:47)

22. Uncreated grace = God Himself (00:24:16)

23. “Two fundamentally different worlds” (Sophrony the Athonite) (00:24:49)

24. Significance of the hypostasis and gnosiological context of divine revelation (00:25:25)

25. “Essentialism” and pantheism (00:25:59)

26. Western safeguard against pantheism: Ontological distance between God and man (00:27:30)

27. “I said, Ye are Gods” (Jn 10.34, Ps 82.6) (00:28:48)

28. Absence of deification in post-Schism western Christianity (00:29:15)

29. Hypostatic integrity (00:30:06)

30. Essentialism - absence of hypostasis - created grace (00:30:13)

31. Beatific Vision and Pantheism of the Far East (00:30:49)

32. The point of the essence-energies distinction: unmediated access to God (00:32:09)

33. God’s original purpose: to make images of Himself (00:33:01)

34. Athanasius the Great: “On the Incarnation of the Word” (00:33:21)

35. Appeal (00:33:42)