Download or read book Rethinking the Filioque with the Greek Fathers written by Giulio Maspero and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2023-07-27 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Does the Holy Spirit proceed only from the Father—or also from the Son? Protestants and Roman Catholics might immediately answer the latter and wonder why their Orthodox friends protest. Historically one of the major obstacles to Christian unity across the East-West divide, the Filioque—the part of the Latin translation of the Nicene Creed claiming the Holy Spirit proceeds from the Father and the Son—still bedevils Trinitarian theologians today. How can the church possibly achieve unity in the face of this dogmatic difference, implacable for over a millennium? Giulio Maspero shows us how the answer can be found in history. In the fourth century, when Pneumatomachians denied the divinity of the Holy Spirit, the Cappadocian Fathers came to a relational understanding of the most elusive person of the Trinity: the Holy Spirit was conceived of as the glory and power eternally exchanged between the Father and the Son. In fact, this understanding is still fundamentally shared by Eastern and Western Christians. Examining Syriac traditions as an example, Maspero observes that both Syriac and Latin lack the linguistic precision to describe the nature of the Holy Spirit’s procession from the Trinity in the same way as Greek, hence the ambiguous Filioque. Yet what might be seen on the surface as a mere translation error reveals deep questions about the triune nature of God. With rigorous theological argument, Maspero ultimately proposes a way forward for East and West—one based not on centuries of polemics, but on a common tradition established by the Greek Fathers. Essential reading for the ecumenically minded theologian, Rethinking the Filioque with the Greek Fathers takes a crucial step toward Christian unity.
Download or read book The Cappadocian Reshaping of Metaphysics written by Giulio Maspero and published by . This book was released on 2024-01-10 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume, Giulio Maspero explores both the ontology and the epistemology of the Cappadocians from historical and speculative points of view. He shows how the Cappadocians developed a real Trinitarian Ontology through their reshaping of the Aristotelian category of relation, which they rescued from the accidental dimension and inserted into the immanence of the one divine and eternal substance. This perspective made possible a new conception of individuation. No longer exclusively linked to substantial difference, as in classical Greek philosophy, the concept was instead founded on the mutual relation of the divine Persons. The Cappadocians' metaphysical reshaping was also closely linked to a new epistemological conception based on apophaticism, which shattered the logical closure of their opponents, and anticipated results that modern research has subsequently highlighted, Bridging the late antique philosophy with Patristics, Maspero' s study allows us to find the relational traces within the Trinity in the world and in history.
Download or read book The Greek Fathers written by Adrian Fortescue and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rethinking Catholic Theology written by Egan, Harvey D., SJ and published by Paulist Press. This book was released on with total page 609 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rethinking Catholic Theology: From The Mystery of Existence to the New Creation provides readers with an intelligent, informed, critical grasp of at least the central truths of the Catholic/Christian tradition. It aims to help readers to rethink more deeply these essential truths, and moreover, in what specific ways the understanding of the Catholic faith has changed and/or remained the same since Vatican II. The first part centers on Jesus Messiah and the mystery of existence. It delineates how his life, death, resurrection as “transformed physicality,” and ascension usher in the kingdom of God and best answer the questions: Who am I? Who are we? Where did we come from and where are we ultimately headed? What is the meaning of it all? The second part focuses on how Pentecost, the Trinity, the Church, the Scriptures, the Sacraments, Christian life itself, Mariology, the Communion of Saints, and Christian mysticism shed light on the mystery of existence. It demonstrates how the church flows intrinsically and naturally from the person of Jesus Christ and how the Scriptures and the sacraments likewise arise intrinsically and naturally from the church. Part three stresses considers various views of afterlife mainly from the Judeo-Christian tradition. It raises difficult after-death questions, such as individual and general judgment, the intermediate state, the nature of the soul after death, Limbo, and Purgatory. Finally, it outlines the idea of Jesus’s Second Coming and considers such concepts as Deep Incarnation, and the New Creation.
Download or read book The Greek Fathers Classic Reprint written by Adrian Fortescue and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-09 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Greek Fathers For anyone to be called a Father involves these four conditions. First, he must be an Author, whose works are still extant. The fathers are important because they are quoted as authorities in theology. Obviously, then, they are all people who wrote works that we can quote. St Antony the Hermit, St Law rence, St Sebastian are not fathers because they have left no writings. Secondly, he must be a C atho lic, who lived in the communion of the Church, whose writings are correct and orthodox. Otherwise the writer's authority is of no value as a witness of the Catholic faith. Apollinaris of Laodicea (t c. 390) and Tertullian (t 240) were learned and prolific authors; but they are not fathers because they were heretics. Thirdly, a father is a person of eminent sanctity as well as learning. The title is an honourable one given only to saints. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Greek Fathers written by Adrian Fortescue and published by . This book was released on 1929 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Filioque written by Erick Ybarra and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "At the root of the schism between Catholics and Orthodox is the divergence between the two on the issue of the eternal procession of the Holy Spirit. From the 9th to 15th centuries, the doctrine of the Filioque occupied the greatest concern for the Greeks, since they understood its concept to entail an essential Trinitarian error. Were the Orthodox objections to the Filioque sound? Did the Catholics have a good response? Written for both the fresh inquirer and the seasoned theologian, this book sets out to answer these questions. The reader is provided with a robust investigation into the historic models of the doctrine of the Trinity as constructed by the Latin and Greek Fathers. Following this, the objections coming from pre-eminent voices of the Orthodox tradittion such as Photios, Gregory II of Cyprus, and Gregory Palamas are explained and tested in light of Scripture and Tradition. While Catholics and Orthodox have never come to achieve any official resolution to this doctrinal disparity, when the core concerns of both are highlighted, it becomes plain that there are far greater similiarities than there are dissimilarities. Nevertheless, because the Filioque controversy was the chief issue that caused the separation between the Catholic and Orthodox Churches, one will need to give a critical examination of the theology of both sides so as to create a well-informed opinion on the matter. This book seeks to provide the reader with such an opportunity."--Back cover.
Download or read book The Greek Fathers written by Adrian Fortescue and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 edition. Excerpt: ... 202 CHAPTER VII ST JOHN OF DAMASCUS (f c. 754) JOHN of Damascus, surnamed Chrysorroas,1 monk and priest near Jerusalem, is in most ways unlike any other father of the Church. Unless we count St Bernard (f 1153) one, John is the last of the fathers. In any case, he is the last Greek father, coming long after the others, alone in a very different age. He spent all his life under the government of a Mohammedan khalifah. His work as a writer was rather to compile and arrange what the older fathers had said than to add to it. He is the first of the long line of Christian Aristotelians, and one of the two greatest poets of the eastern Church.2 He was (with St Theodore of Studion) the chief defender of images during the Iconoclast troubles, and he is more than any other author the theologian studied in Orthodox colleges. His treatise Of the orthodox faith is the standard text book in their schools still, as St Thomas Aquinas' Summa theologica is in ours. And he is to them the last court of appeal in theological questions. No Orthodox Christian would dare contradict St John Damascene, though occasionally they have to explain what he really meant--as when he writes of the procession of the Holy Ghost from the Father through the Son. We know too little of his life; but to us also he is a very interesting and sympathetic person whose life and times form a singularly picturesque chapter of eastern Church history. 1Xpv
Download or read book The Divinization of the Christian According to the Greek Fathers written by Jules Gross and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Greek Fathers written by James Marshall Campbell and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Post Nicene Greek Fathers written by George Anson Jackson and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rethinking the Mystery of God In Relation to You and the World written by and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book God in Patristic Thought written by George Leonard Prestige and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2008-11-01 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book assembles the evidence for what the Greek Fathers, the men whose contructive thought underlies the creeds, really thought and taught about the nature of God. It shows that they were original thinkers, with a profound reverence for the text of the Scriptures, and minds keenly tranined to discuss what ultimate truths were expressed in the scriptural text and what reality should be ascribed to Christian religious experience. The results indicate that a good deal which is assumed in current theological text-books needs to be revised. The Fathers had to reconcile monotheism with faith in a Trinity of divine Persons. In the process, they pursued many lines of inquiry, often only to discard them after trial, but after following various clues and making various intellectual adventures they reached a solution of the problem, which was both true to their data and philosophically reasonable. Though the bulk of the book is concerned with the third and fourth centuries, during which the creeds were in the process of formulation, the story is carried down to the eighth century where the progress of original thought came to a standstill. It is shown that a great change came over the philosophical tradition during the sixth century, and owing to the consequent growth of formalism, a genuine outbreak of tritheism occurred. The book ends with the account of how this outbreak was met and overcome, largely through the efforts of a thinker whose very name is unknown, and whose book has only survived under the name of another man.
Download or read book Rethinking Trinitarian Theology written by Giulio Maspero and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: >
Download or read book The Greek Fathers written by James Marshall Campbell and published by . This book was released on 2013-03 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Greek Fathers written by Adrian Fortescue and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2016-05-25 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book Rethinking the Carolingian reforms written by Arthur Westwell and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2023-04-25 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Carolingian period (c. 750-900) has traditionally been described as one of ‘reform’ or ‘renaissance’, where cultural and intellectual changes were imposed from above in a programme of correctio. This view leans heavily on prescriptive texts issued by kings and their entourages, foregrounding royal initiative and the cultural products of a small intellectual elite. However, attention to understudied texts and manuscripts of the period reveals a vibrant striving for moral improvement and positive change at all levels of society. This expressed itself in a variety of ways for different individuals and communities, whose personal relationships could be just as influential as top-down prescription. The often anonymous creators and copyists in a huge range of centres emerge as active participants in shaping and re-shaping the ideals of their world. A much more dynamic picture of Carolingian culture emerges when we widen our perspective to include sources from beyond royal circles and intellectual elites. This book reveals that the Carolingian age did not witness a coherent programme of reform, nor one distinct to this period and dependent exclusively on the strength of royal power. Rather, it formed a particularly intense, well-funded and creative chapter in the much longer history of moral improvement for the sake of collective salvation.
