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Contra Mundum: Athanasius and the LDS on Deification
For some time, the Mormons have been availing themselves of material in the Fathers of the Church regarding theosis in order to render their own doctrines more plausible. There is no shortage of LDS b… more →
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Contra Mundum: Athanasius and the LDS on Deification
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Perry Robinson wrote 3 weeks ago: For some time, the Mormons have been availing themselves of material in the Fathers of the Church re … more →
Divine Simplicity in Aetius' Neo-Arianism
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Perry Robinson wrote 1 month ago: ”4. If God remains endlessly in ungenerated essence and the generate is endlessly generate, … more →
Saint Cyril on Divine Simplicity
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Perry Robinson wrote 4 months ago: Bekkos over at De Unione Ecclesiarum has posted some citations from Saint Cyril of Alexandria. Since … more →
Notes to an Iconoclast
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Perry Robinson wrote 7 months ago: Turretinfanhas taken some shots at some Catholic apologist regarding icons and John of Damascus. I d … more →
Knowledge and the Uncreated Light
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testostercone wrote 7 months ago: I’ve been dialoging with some Roman Catholics on the Eseence / Energies distinction, and mostl … more →
Anglicans In Exile
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Perry Robinson wrote 8 months ago: I wrote this a long time ago, before this blog existed when I was writing on Kimel’s Pontifica … more →
We Have Met the Enemy
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Perry Robinson wrote 9 months ago: Turretinfan has given me more material to write about. Here he is attempting to fend off the accusa … more →
pantheistic confusion or the purely metaphorical
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ochlophobist wrote 11 months ago: I noticed with their new catalog that Eighth Day books is offering a translation of Archimandrite Pl … more →
An Irish gem in the West: The Proper Use of Dialectic
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photios wrote 1 year ago: “For just as God is both beyond all things and in all things — for He Who only truly is, is th … more →
God, History and Dialectic
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Perry Robinson wrote 1 year ago: An electronic version of Joseph Farrell’s extended work, God, History, and Dialectic is now av … more →
Essence and Energies in the Fathers
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Perry Robinson wrote 1 year ago: “Is it not ridiculous to say that the creative power is an essence, and similarly, that provid … more →
Saint Mark of Ephesus on False Union and the Filioque
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Perry Robinson wrote 1 year ago: “To those who have ensnared us in an evil captivity and desire to lead us away into Babylon of … more →
A Grace Unworthy of the Name
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Perry Robinson wrote 1 year ago: “Sanctifying grace, or the grace of the just, is not a mere extrinsic favor of God but a perma … more →
Norman Russell on Theosis
Perry Robinson wrote 1 year ago: http://www.myriobiblos.gr/texts/english/Russell_partakers.html … more →
Drawing near to God
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monkpatrick wrote 2 years ago: In light of recent discussions this quote from St Gregory Palamas may help provide some more patrist … more →
Things That I Make Up
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Perry Robinson wrote 2 years ago: So very often in discussing matters of theological importance the common complaint against the Ortho … more →
St Gregory Palamas on Eunomios and more
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monkpatrick wrote 2 years ago: I am sure that this must have been posted before but as a refresher in the context of recent posts i … more →
Here's a Dot
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Perry Robinson wrote 2 years ago: “According to Rowan Williams, the central concern is with the freedom of God’s will. Ari … more →
St John of Damascus on Divine Names
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monkpatrick wrote 2 years ago: “The following, then, are the mysteries which we have learned from the holy oracles, as the di … more →
