Revelation of "I AM", Augustine of Hippo: An Orthodox Perspective, Part 3, Dr. C. Veniamin

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Series: Mystical Theology
Episode 22: Augustine of Hippo: An Orthodox Perspective, Part 3, Revelation of "I AM" (Exod. 3:18), with Prof. Christopher Veniamin
In Part 3 of “Augustine of Hippo: An Orthodox Perspective”, Episode 22 of our series in “Mystical Theology”, we discuss St. Augustine's understanding of the revelation of "I AM", given to Moses on Sinai (Exod. 3:14). See Timestamps for other themes.
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); 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).
Further bibliography may be found in our "Scholar's Corner" webpage.

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1. Recap and segue to reading text (00:00:00)

2. The Filioque icon (00:00:31)

3. Trinities of Mind (Analogies) (00:03:36)

4. 1st Trinity of Mind: Mind, Knowledge, Love (00:04:04)

5. 2nd Trinity of Mind: Memory, Understanding, Willing (00:05:58)

6. Memory (memoria) (00:06:54)

7. Soliloquy (00:09:16)

8. God as Nous, Logos, Pneuma (in Nazianzen and Palamas) (00:14:34)

9. Irenaeus of Lyons: two hands of God (00:15:45)

10. Reading of 1st passage, Comm. on Ps. 134.3-4 (Ps. 135.3) (00:16:58)

11. Commentary on 1st passage, Comm. on Ps. 134.3-4 (Ps. 135.3) (00:19:39)

12. Platonic Forms: the Good & the Beautiful (00:20:18)

13. Participation in the Absolute Good (00:21:17)

14. The Personal God of Christianity (00:21:55)

15. Reading of 2nd passage, Comm. on Ps. 134.3-4 (Ps. 135.3) (00:23:15)

16. Commentary on 2nd passage, Comm. on Ps. 134.3-4 (Ps. 135.3) (00:25:24)

17. Absolute and relative Good (00:25:53)

18. Similarity of “Being” (00:27:41)

19. The created–uncreated distinction (00:28:58)

20. The analogy of Being & and the Image of God (00:34:08)

21. Difference between Augustine and the Platonists (00:36:06)

22. “I Am”: God as Being vs Personal (00:36:23)

23. No “hypostasis” in Western theology (00:38:19)

24. ἐγώ εἰμι ὁ ὤν (Exod. 3.14) (00:39:56)

25. Appeal (00:40:08)