Essence/Energy Distinction? Part 1: The Power of God

In this video I look at Michel Rene Barnes' book, The Power of God: A Study of Gregory of Nyssa's Trinitarian Theology, and consider it's relevance to the issue of an essence/energy distinction in God.
I also focus on the need to define theological terms paradigmatically, and not in isolation, with passing reference to Dr Gyorgy Gereby's paper on Theistic fallacies:
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[@objectively_subjective]

Posh is very good at explaining the faith from orthodox views. Happy to see his knowledge being referenced. God bless!

[@silveriorebelo2920]

the problem with contemporary Greek-Orthodox theologians is their willingness to dogmatize a particular theological tradition, by chosing this or that staement of selected authors and nothing else, while constantly contraposing that reconstructed tradition with the Western one - the problem is the hubrys of willing to have the 'true' tradition - but then, all this talk about the specificity of the Greek tradition makes no sense when we realize that Thomism is but a narrow theological tradition of the medieval West, with very few followers nowadays - moreover, and more significantly, the truth is that the Latin Church during the first centuries had very similar positions about divine light and divinization as those we find in the Eastern tradition - and it would be good that Greek-Orthodox people cease gaslighting people about the divine excellence of the Greek Fathers, by starting to recognize that similarity - and perhaps they should begin reading the Latin Fathers and talking about the riches of their thought in order to sound less sectarian...

[@tellmethetruth4844]

Well, it was actually the Palamite councils of 1341-1351 that dogmatized this particular metaphysical tradition for the East. As evidenced by the second week of Great Lent being dedicated as the Sunday of St. Gregory Palamas and his theology, honoring him and this tradition in the Divine Liturgy. A central role not equally shared with any other metaphysical tradition. Perhaps our Latin friends could begin reading the lectionaries and liturgies of the East as well as all of our councils. This might help broaden their understanding of the Eastern tradition as a whole and potentially prevent any further gaslighting from their side as well.

[@HDPersonal777]

The Hebrew Gadrael is pronounced phonetically “god”. Yet Gad according to the book of Enoch is a fallen Angel. God is dog backwards and Dog-mat-eyes (dogmatise). The Hebrew Alpha-bet is also Greek Alpha-bet(a) backwards in reverse, literally.

[@ΓραικοςΕλληνας]

@@tellmethetruth4844 actually saint Gregory Palamas and the synodicon goes against western philosophical metaphysics as no way to know and get in union with God

[@TheKievsash]

It would be great to have this video series as article so non-native speakers can easily translate without losing some info. Great series anyway

[@FirstActuality]

That is a great suggestion, I have been meaning to make a blog to put these up as articles. I will post here when I get that done.

[@tellmethetruth4844]

@@FirstActuality yes, please let us know when the blog (or any written format) is ready and where it can be found. I would love to engage with the material more.

[@FirstActuality]

I apologise for the delay, I have just launched a blog with some of these articles in written format, with more to follow. You can find the link here: firstactuality.wordpress.com/

[@TheKievsash]

Just started to read - and now I have so deeper ynderstanding of video idea as not native speaker, thank you and God bless!

[@HDPersonal777]

The Hebrew Gadrael is pronounced phonetically “god”. Yet Gad according to the book of Enoch is a fallen Angel. God is dog backwards and Dog-mat-eyes (dogmatise). The Hebrew Alpha-bet is also Greek Alpha-bet(a) backwards in reverse, literally.

[@joshuadonahue5871]

Big if true

[@SolarSiege]

You just may have autism. I'm not doubting the truth of my claim. Everything you said is an insane stretch from the linguistics, you don't know how languages work. Because gad is pronounced God does not allude to the idea that God in every sense must be about the pagan deity Gad. Correlation isn't causation. Check out inspiring philosophy!