Three Basic Mistakes, Augustine of Hippo, Episode 31, Mystical Theology, Dr. C. Veniamin

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Episode 31: Three Basic Mistakes, Augustine of Hippo on the Holy Trinity, Episode 31, Mystical Theology, Dr. C. Veniamin
Based on St. Augustine’s De Fide et Symbolo, this presentation discusses three erroneous presuppositions made by the Bishop of Hippo, and perpetuated by his followers, which have influenced subsequent generations in the Franco-Latin Christianity of the West. These assumptions, discerned by Fr. John Romanides, one of the foremost Orthodox theologians of our times, may be found in his lecture, “The Filioque” (see details below). Other themes touched upon are included in the Timestamps.
Q&As available in The Professor’s 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); 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) ; and Fr. John Romanides, “The Filioque”, Patriarch Athenagoras Memorial Lectures, Franks, Romans, Feudalism, and Doctrine: An Interplay between Theology and Society (Holy Cross Orthodox Press, 1981), pp. 71–90.
Further bibliography may be found in our "Scholar's Corner" webpage.

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Розділи

1. The wider context: three presuppositions (Romanides) (00:00:00)

2. De fide et Symbolo: 1st presupposition: “Proprium” of Holy Spirit still unclear (00:00:55)

3. Pentecost not conceptual: “All the Truth” (00:02:33)

4. Second Ecumenical Council (381) (00:03:02)

5. De fide et Symbolo: 2nd presupposition: Holy Spirit identified with “theotes” (00:04:06)

6. Further qualification of term “theotes” (θεότης) needed (00:09:29)

7. “Filioque” becomes a necessity (00:10:38)

8. Term “theotes” (θεότης) discussed at Council of Constantinople 1351 (00:12:42)

9. A word of qualification on “theotes” (θεότης) (00:13:50)

10. De fide et Symbolo: 3rd presupposition: a speculating Church (00:16:04)

11. The Church is Christ: the Body of Christ: a “theanthropic institution” because of the “Theanthropos” (00:18:10)

12. Confusion of Hierarchy or Clergy with the Church (00:18:31)

13. Vision of Christ is vision of the Truth, the whole Truth - our receptiveness of the Truth depends (00:19:12)

14. Grace of God not a “part” of God (00:19:42)

15. Church still learning - God teaches Church through the world (00:20:13)

16. The vision of Christ in glory is Pentecost - Pentecost of each Saint (00:20:42)

17. “Progressive revelation”: Basis of Frankish propaganda for the “Filioque” (00:20:59)

18. Present-day Saints confirm truth of the Bible and Lives of earlier Saints (00:22:14)

19. Appeal (00:22:51)