Category Archives: Dumitru Staniloae

The Incomprehensibility of Divine Personhood and the Mysticism of the Hoi Poloi

Posted on 16 July 2020 by Fr Aidan Kimel

The Eastern theological tradition has long insisted the essence of God is incomprehensible, inaccessible, unknowable, and imparticipable to all rational creatures, human and angelic. The living God can only be apprehended through his divine energies. As Vladimir Lossky writes: “Wholly … Continue reading →

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Dumitru Staniloae: Divine Personhood and the Knowledge of Faith

Posted on 14 July 2020 by Fr Aidan Kimel

Dumitru Staniloae begins his chapter on the knowledge of God by distinguishing between rational knowledge and apophatic knowledge; and over the course of the chapter he un­packs, contrasts, and synthesizes these two forms of knowledge. I was surprised, therefore, when … Continue reading →

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Dumitru Staniloae: The Rational and Apophatic Knowledge of God

Posted on 13 July 2020 by Fr Aidan Kimel

For the past two months I have been reading the first volume of Dumitru Staniloae’s Ortho­dox Dogmatic Theology in concert with the Fellowship of St Maximus. Staniloae enjoys the reputation of being the finest Orthodox theo­logian of the 20th century. He … Continue reading →

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The “Infinite Content of the Dogmatic Formulae”: Stăniloae and (Rethinking) the Limits of Dogma

Posted on 10 July 2018 by Fr Aidan Kimel

by Alvin Rapien Dogma, as defined by the Cambridge Dictionary, is “a fixed belief or set of beliefs that people are expected to accept without any doubts.” Such a definition is echoed within both popular and academic understandings of religious … Continue reading →

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The Knowledge of God According to Dumitru Staniloae

Posted on 12 September 2016 by Fr Aidan Kimel

by Fr Jonathan Tobias “It is not the same to say something about God as it is to gain and see God”—so St Gregory Palamas said to Barlaam (quoted in The Experience of God, p. 115). Here is Fr Dumitru Staniloae’s … Continue reading →

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Staniloae and Zizioulas: The Incomprehensibility of Divine Personhood and the Mysticism of the Hoi Poloi

Posted on 2 October 2014 by Fr Aidan Kimel

The Eastern theological tradition has long insisted the essence of God is incomprehensible, inaccessible, unknowable, and imparticipable to all rational creatures, human and angelic. The living God can only be apprehended through his divine energies. As Vladimir Lossky writes: “Wholly … Continue reading →

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Dumitru Staniloae: The Knowledge of Faith

Posted on 25 September 2014 by Fr Aidan Kimel

Dumitru Staniloae begins his chapter on the knowledge of God by distinguishing between rational knowledge and apophatic knowledge; and over the course of the chapter he unpacks, contrasts, and synthesizes these two forms of knowledge. I was surprised, therefore, when … Continue reading →

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Dumitru Staniloae: The Rational and Apophatic Knowledge of God

Posted on 24 September 2014 by Fr Aidan Kimel

For the past two months I have been reading the first volume of the dogmatics of Dumitru Staniloae in concert with the Fellowship of St Maximus. Staniloae enjoys the reputation of being the finest Orthodox theologian of the 20th century. He … Continue reading →

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