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Divine Energies: The Consuming Fire and the Beatific Vision [PDF]
TheoLogica, 2018 I argue that a comprehensive ontological assessment of the beatific vision suggests that an individual’s experience of God’s face is not merely dependent on a revelation of the divine energies, but that it requires a particular mode of reception on the ...
A. G. Holdier
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St Andrews Encyclopaedia of TheologyThis article discusses the historical origins and the development of the Eastern Orthodox doctrine of the divine energies. After a brief discussion of Aristotle and Plotinus, an overview is given of the relevant biblical material in the Old and New ...
Christoph Schneider
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Plotinus the antipalamite [PDF]
Zbornik Radova Vizantološkog Instituta, 2022 The synod of Constantinople of 1351 discussed six questions and answers concerning the Palamite doctrine of energies. Nikephoros Gregoras was condemned at the gathering and subsequently defended his position in his History of the Romans, where ...
Lauritzen Frederick
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It is impossible not to “trust” Frank... Semyon Frank and George Florovsky [PDF]
Вестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета: Серия I. Богословие, философия, 2021 The article examines the life and creative connections of two prominent Russian thinkers of the 20th century, S. L. Frank and Revd. Georgy Florovsky. It fi rst looks the biographical aspects of their relationship and then analyses Revd.
Teresa Obolevitch
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Aspects of the theory of the divine “union” and “distinction” according to George Pachymeres
Волинський благовісник, 2020 The prominent theological question of the union and distinction between the divine essence, the divine Persons and the divine energies, as well as other divine self-founding conditions, has caused the interest of the Byzantine Christian thinkers, who ...
Lydia Petridou
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Triune Agency, East and West: Uncreated Energies or Created Effects?
Perichoresis: The Theological Journal of Emanuel University, 2020 The present paper situates the Western and Eastern models of divine agency within their respective ontological frameworks. I show how the Western conception of divine agency as the production of ‘created effects’ is rooted in a particular understanding ...
Vidu Adonis
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The theory of ‘union–distinction’ as a paradigm of Gr. Palamas’ methodology [PDF]
SCHOLE, 2017 The issue concerning the real existence of the divine energies and consequently their relation to the divine essence is remarkably important for Christian Metaphysics. This study deals with the way in which Gr.
Christos Terezis, Lydia Petridou
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The origin, definition and nature of the transconscious in the spirituality of Father Stăniloae
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2021 In his important work, Orthodox Spirituality, Father Dumitru Stăniloae considers that, besides the real existence of the subconscious, there exists in man another reality as well, comprising the superior divine energies found in the human heart and which
Vasilică V. Bîrzu
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The Flexibility of Thomistic Metaphysical Principles: Byzantine Thomists, Personalist Thomists, and Jacques Maritain [PDF]
Studia Gilsoniana, 2022 Thomistic metaphysics has been challenged on the grounds that its principles are inconsistent with our experiences of divine action and of our own subjectivity.
Mark K. Spencer
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Experiencing living in God through uncreated divine energy
Technium Social Sciences Journal, 2022 The transcendence of God requires that human spirituality seeks to experience it, through accessible, intelligible means, but constantly aware of the fact that the inexpressible cannot be expressed. The correct relation of the human to the divine transcendence is the foundation of what we call apophatic theology, the theology that defines God as being ...
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