"Hypostasis": the Threeness of God, The Cappadocian Fathers, Pt 4, Prof. Christopher Veniamin

Mystical Theology: Introducing the Theology and Spiritual Life of the Orthodox Church

Series: Mystical Theology
Episode 19: "Hypostasis": the Threeness of God, The Cappadocian Fathers, Pt 4, Prof. Christopher Veniamin
In Part 4 of “The Cappadocian Fathers”, Episode 19 of our series in “Mystical Theology”, we present the doctrine of the mystery of the Threefoldness of God.
Themes broached are listed in the Timestamps below.
Q&As available in The Professor’s Blog: https://mountthabor.com/blogs/the-professors-blog
Recommended background reading: Christopher Veniamin, ed., Saint Gregory Palamas: The Homilies (Dalton PA: 2022): https://mountthabor.com/products/saint-gregory-palamas-the-homilies ; The Orthodox Understanding of Salvation: "Theosis" in Scripture and Tradition (2016): https://mountthabor.com/products/the-orthodox-understanding-of-salvation-by-dr-christopher-veniamin ; 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. Recap of Parts 2 & 3: the Oneness of God (00:00:00)

2. The diversity in God: Hypostasis (00:04:34)

3. Three distinctive hypostatic characteristics (00:06:52)

4. Observations re the hypostatic characteristics (00:08:02)

5. Gregory the Theologian: σχέσις (00:08:36)

6. Concept of “relation” and Augustine of Hippo (00:09:47)

7. Procession of Holy Spirit in the Creed (00:13:20)

8. Basil the Great (00:14:30)

9. Gregory the Theologian (00:14:46)

10. Gregory of Nyssa: “through” the Son (00:16:06)

11. Augustine of Hippo (00:20:58)

12. The Oxford Patristics Conference (00:22:28)

13. Tertullian (00:24:12)

14. Patristics in Roman Catholic Seminaries (00:24:27)

15. Western perspective on the “Monarchy” of the Father (00:25:36)

16. Augustine writes “De Trinitate” on “Proprium” of Holy Spirit (00:26:23)

17. Appeal (00:27:16)