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Oecumenical Grace: Eastern Orthodoxy on Theosis

Posted on 12 June 2014 by Fr Aidan Kimel

“It is too little realized,” write Charles Mœller and Gérard Philips, “that opposition to neo-platonism is as important in the East as that to Pelagianism in the West” (The Theology of Grace and the Oecumenical Movement, p. 6). In the … Continue reading →

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The Thomist and the Palamite

Posted on 6 June 2014 by Fr Aidan Kimel

Palamite: “You make no distinction between the essence of God and his energy and you say that God gives himself to the creature in a finite mode. On your showing, this must mean that the divine essence is given in … Continue reading →

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