Tag Archives: Holy Trinity

Ainulindalë: The God Who is Music and Beauty

Posted on 5 February 2023 by Fr Aidan Kimel

“In the beginning,” the inspired writer declares, “Elohim created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep; and the Spirit of God was moving over the face of the … Continue reading →

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St Basil the Great: Homily on the Beginning of the Gospel of John

Posted on 6 January 2023 by Fr Aidan Kimel

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. This one was in the beginning with God. (Jn 1:1-2) John 1:1-2 was a favorite text of St Basil the Great. He addresses … Continue reading →

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Division of Being in St Gregory of Nyssa’s ‘Contra Eunomium’

Posted on 29 March 2021 by Fr Aidan Kimel

by Robert F. Fortuin The ultimate division of all that exists is made by the line between ‘created’ and ‘uncreated,’ the one being regarded as a cause of what has come into being, the other as coming into being thereby. … Continue reading →

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Thinking Trinity: No God Behind the Back of Jesus

Posted on 1 August 2019 by Fr Aidan Kimel

What if the Nicene assertion of Christ’s Jesus’ consubstantial unity with the Father is not true? In the previous article I focused on the story of the paralytic and Christ’s word of forgiveness and argued that if Christ is not … Continue reading →

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Thinking Trinity: The Secret of the Homoousion

Posted on 23 July 2019 by Fr Aidan Kimel

We believe in one God the Father all powerful, maker of all things both seen and unseen. And in one Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, the only-begotten begotten from the Father, that is from the substance of the … Continue reading →

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Thinking Trinity: The Radical Homoousion

Posted on 18 July 2019 by Fr Aidan Kimel

When in A.D. 325 the bishops of the Council of Nicaea declared (1) that Jesus Christ is begotten “from the substance of the Father” and (2) that he is “of one substance” (homoousios) with the Father, they probably did not … Continue reading →

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Eclectic Thoughts on Holy Trinity: Person, Essence, Energy, and Stuff Like That

Posted on 28 November 2018 by Fr Aidan Kimel

by Robert F. Fortuin There is an observation by David Hart in the essay ‘The Hidden and the Manifest’ worthy of further consideration. The comment occurs in his critique of Thomist and Neo-Palamite readings of patristic distinctions within God: There … Continue reading →

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Dionysian Ponderings: To let be or not let be–that is the question

Posted on 8 July 2018 by Fr Aidan Kimel

Did the Lord God Almighty have to create the world? This is the question I now wish to pose to St Dionysius the Areopagite. It is a pressing question for Christian students of the Areopagite because he is so deeply … Continue reading →

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