I would continue sharing the thoughts of Gregory Palamas about Christ and the Holy Trinity. What the Three Persons do, he says, they do together, in unison. As St. Gregory of Nyssa teaches: We do not learn that the Father … Continue reading
Category Archives: Learning Our Faith from the Church Fathers
According to St. Gregory, Christ is at the heart of all the great revelations of God to humankind in both the Old and New Testaments. As examples of this there are: The three men or angels that appeared to Abraham … Continue reading
In the last issue I began sharing some thoughts about our Father among the Saints, Gregory Palamas. He is, above all, the first and foremost theologian of the Transfiguration: that great New Testament (NT) theophany, which gives us, in a … Continue reading
One of the very important Eastern Fathers of the Church who is key in the interpretation of Holy Scripture, is St. Gregory Palamas. It was in 1334, while on Mt Athos, in his third year at the hermitage of St. … Continue reading
From Byzantine liturgical hymnology we clearly see that the Holy Spirit is the glory of Christ, which not only transfigures the body of the historical Jesus, as was the case at the Transfiguration, but glorifies as well His wider “Body,” … Continue reading
In Greek patristic and Byzantine thought, human salvation is understood essentially in terms of participation in and communion with the deified humanity of the incarnate Word, the New Adam. When the Fathers call the Spirit the “image of the Son,” … Continue reading
The Cappadocian Fathers stressed the fact that in the economy of salvation (this is the typical way that the Fathers expressed the process of salvation), the Son and the Spirit are inseparable: “When the Word dwelt upon the holy Virgin … Continue reading
As I have shared, the Cappadocian Fathers are greatly responsible for our understanding of God, the Holy Spirit. Their understanding truly influences our worship and the way that we celebrate various feasts. In the last issue I mentioned our Eastern … Continue reading
In the last issue of this article I began sharing what the Cappadocian Fathers taught, especially about the Holy Spirit. The fact that man’s life is somehow connected with God’s breath, makes man to be God’s image. A being taken … Continue reading
St. Basil writes that the function of the Holy Spirit is not to reveal Himself, but to reveal the Son “through whom all things were made” and who is also personally known in His humanity as Jesus Christ. He also … Continue reading