Tag Archives: David Hart

Dionysian Ponderings: Transcendence and the Plotinian One

Posted on 30 May 2018 by

I come to my reading of the Corpus Areopagaticum with a specific understanding of divine transcendence, an understanding which I will be testing along the way. We might put it this way: God infinitely surpasses all creaturely distinctions and dualities—transcendence … Continue reading →

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Hartian Illuminations: Transcendence Beyond Negation and the Analogy of Being

Posted on 22 January 2018 by

In this series of “illuminations” I will be citing passages that I have found particularly instructive from the essays collected in The Hidden and the Manifest, followed by a question or brief comment. I hope they will generate good discussion. “I … Continue reading →

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Theosis and the Palamite Distinction: Questions & Concerns

Posted on 2 October 2017 by

by Fr Aidan Kimel That there exists in God a real distinction between his essence and his energies, theologians assure us, is an irreformable dogma of the Orthodox Church. If so, it is a curious dogma, originating in a question … Continue reading →

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Perichoretic Trinity in Transcendence

Posted on 3 September 2017 by

Just how personal are the divine persons? We know that when the Eastern Church sought an appropriate vocabulary by which to distinguish the Father, Son, and Spirit from the divine substance, it finally settled on the impersonal word hypostasis, which … Continue reading →

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Nicene Metaphysics: Apprehending the Transcendence

Posted on 14 August 2017 by

It’s not clear in my own mind precisely when I began to make the connection between creatio ex nihilo and the metaphysical revolution initiated by the first two ecumenical councils and the theologians we now identify as the Pro-Nicene Fathers (St … Continue reading →

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Ante-Nicene Subordinationism and the Unitarian Narrative

Posted on 6 August 2017 by

So how did we get from trinity to Trinity, from the one God with his Son and Holy Spirit to the tri-personal God in which each person is ontologically distinct and yet equally divine? As we saw in “Once Upon … Continue reading →

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U-turns and Transcendentals

Posted on 2 March 2017 by

by Pastor Tom Belt I’m delighted to be back at Eclectic Orthodoxy – my home away from home. I’m always informed and challenged by the content and the company here. It’s like pulling a chair up to a warm hearth … Continue reading →

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