Tag: triad
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Absolute Divine Simplicity and Hellenic Presuppositions – Jay Dyer
“When God was conversing with Moses, He did not say, “I am the essence”, but “I am the One Who is.” Thus it is not the One Who is who derives from the essence, but essence which derives from Him, for it is He who contains all being in Himself.” -St. Gregory Palamas, Triads in Defense…
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Incarnation of the Logos – St. Athanasius (Partial Lecture)
Functioning as a perfect introduction to Orthodoxy, in this talk we will cover St. Athanasius’ famous work, On the Incarnation, which lays out the basics of Orthodoxy. From theosis to balanced Triadology, the Incarnation and Resurrection are the pillar doctrines of our faith and function as a golden chain based around the correct doctrine of…
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Filioquism in Palamas, Aquinas & Augustine – Jay Dyer
A reply to various so-called Orthodox and Roman Catholic apologist attempts to reply to my essay. Ultimately these attempts fail because they do not understand hypostatic properties and the orthodox distinctions of will, nature, person and operation. As a result, both faux “Orthodox” and Roman Catholics congeal into a mass lump of heretical perennialism, as…
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The Western Loss of Theophanies, Descent & Recapitulation of Christ
By: Jay Dyer “Thy mystery of the incarnation of the Word bears the power of all hidden meanings and figures of Scripture as well as the knowledge of visible and intelligible creatures. The one who knows the mystery of the cross and the tomb knows the reason of things. And the one who has been…
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Typology as Apologetic, Part 1
The High Priest. By: Jay Dyer The doctrine of typology is often overlooked as an apologetic principle. Apologetics generally consists of philosophical arguments, arguments from nature, arguments from mathematics, etc., but rarely considers argumentation from the texts of Scripture themselves. The reason for this is twofold, as biblical literacy is extremely low in our day,…
The Soul of the East 