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Tag Archives: Fathers of the Church
Logos as Pronoian: St Athanasius and Natural Science
St Athanasius in Contra Gentes spoke about the illuminated as those who view God’s forethought or “pronoian” by seeing divinity reflected in the pure human nous. In illumination, man views everything in the context of his pure, constant, unchanging union … Continue reading
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Tagged Ante-Nicene Fathers, Church Fathers, Contra Gentes, Divine Names, Divine Providence, Exemplars, Fathers of the Church, forms, logoi, natural science, natural theoria, Newton, paradeigmata, patristics, pronoian, science, scientism, St Athanasius, theology
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DESULTORY THOUGHTS ON SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE, AUGUSTINE, LOGOI, POLITICAL THEOLOGY, AND “WHO IS A CHURCH FATHER?”
No Father of the Church has ever held that investigation of nature through the senses per sé renders any knowledge that exceeds the probable. To aid the seeker in achieving natural theoria in preparation for the vision of God, Clement … Continue reading
Posted in Augustine, Christology, Clement of Alexandria, Creation, divine energies, Eastern Orthodox Theology, Eastern Religions; Orthodoxy; Eastern Orthodox Theology, logoi, Modern Orthodox Theologians, modern philosophy, nominalism, Orthodoxy, patristics, philosophy, Platonic Forms, political theology, Pseudomorphosis of Orthodoxy, scientism, Soteriology, Uncategorized, uncreated energies
Tagged Augustine, Christology, Church Fathers, Clement of Alexandria, Eastern Orthodox, empiricism, Fathers of the Church, Fathers of the Orthodox Church, Heart, heresy, Irenaeus of Lyon, logoi, natural theoria, nominalism, Nous, Orthodoxy, patristics, philosophy, Plato, political theology, pragmatism, Pseudomorphosis of Orthodoxy, scientism, theology
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Pseudo-Dionysius, Divine Names, Book I
Originally posted on Into the Clarities:
Here is a parallel of all of the English translations I’ve found of Book One (or “Chapter One”, if the reader prefers) of Pseudo-Dionysius’ On the Divine Names. The formatting here is eccentric — there…
Posted in Dionysius, divine energies, Divine Names, Eastern Orthodox Theology, Orthodoxy, patristics, St Dionysius, uncreated energies
Tagged Church Fathers, Dionysius, Divine Names, Eastern Orthodoxy, Fathers of the Church, Fathers of the Orthodox Church, language about God, logoi, patristic writers, patristics, St Dionysius, theology, translation of medieval texts
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