Tag Archives: Dumitru Staniloae

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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Parousia and the Glorification of the Cosmos

Posted on 10 August 2016 by Fr Aidan Kimel

“But according to his promise we wait for new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness dwells” (2 Pet 3:13). When Christ returns in glory, all will be made new. The cosmos will be transfigured, transformed, transmuted, redeemed, renewed, … 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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St Vincent of Lérins: Doctrine Grows to Remain the Same

Posted on 24 August 2014 by Fr Aidan Kimel

“One only understands the Vincentian canon,” Thomas Guarino writes, “if one sees that the truth of semper, ubique, et ab omnibus is known and preserved in actu ecclesiae, in the living and dynamic life of the church in all of … Continue reading →

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Sergius Bulgakov: The Glory of the Resurrection

Posted on 16 July 2014 by Fr Aidan Kimel

When the Lord Jesus Christ returns in glory, he will return in the body that was crucified under Pontius Pilate and raised from death by the heavenly Father on Easter morning—the same body in which he appeared to his disciples, … Continue reading →

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