The "Monarchy" of God the Father, The Cappadocian Fathers, Pt 3, Prof. Christopher Veniamin

Series: Mystical Theology
Episode 18: The Cappadocian Fathers, Pt 3: The "Monarchy" of God the Father, Ep 18, Prof. Christopher Veniamin
In Part 3 of “The Cappadocian Fathers”, which is Episode 18 of our series in “Mystical Theology”, we present the doctrine of the “Monarchy” of the Father in the context of the mystery of the Triune God.
Themes broached are listed in the Timestamps below.
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Recommended background reading: Christopher Veniamin, ed., Saint Gregory Palamas: The Homilies (Dalton PA: 2022): mountthabor.com/products/sain... ; The Orthodox Understanding of Salvation: "Theosis" in Scripture and Tradition (2016): mountthabor.com/products/the-... ; and Metropolitan Hierotheos Vlachos, Empirical Dogmatics of the Orthodox Catholic Church: According to the Spoken Teaching of Father John Romanides, Vol. 1 (2012), Vol. 2 (repr. ed. 2020).
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TIMESTAMPS
0:00 The Monarchy of the Father
3:19 Essence and Natural Energy
6:17 Generation and Procession
6:42 Consubstantiality = One Essence and Energy from the Father to Son and Spirit
7:21 Sempiternity = Before all Ages
8:30 Human language bound up with Time and implicit orders of rank
8:55 “Theologia” and “Economia”
9:32 One of the Holy Trinity became flesh
10:04 Orthodox theology = “Signposts”, “Pointers”, “Symbols”
10:28 Theology is Experience of God seen in the Saints
11:02 Distinctions within the Godhead
13:24 The Incarnation of God the Word
13:51 The Divine Eucharist
14:21 Three sets of characteristics
14:34 Hypostasis and Energy
15:33 Three hypostatic modes of existence
15:42 “Ta koina” (things shared) and “ta akoinonita” (things not shared)
16:09 The Father is “unbegotten”
16:25 The Son is “begotten”
16:38 The Spirit is “begotten”
17:24 Gregory the Theologian: “relation”
20:19 Augustine’s “relation” approach essentialist
20:43 “Precession” (Gk “ekporeusis”)
22:05 The “Monarchia” of God the Father
22:55 Reality of God transcends language, concepts and mind
25:36 Purpose of God’s creation of mankind
27:12 Appeal
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: I wish to express my indebtedness to the spoken and written traditions of Sts Silouan and Sophrony the Athonites, Fr. Zacharias Zacharou, Fr. Kyrill Akon, Fr. Raphael Noica, Fr. Symeon Brüschweiler; Fr. Pavlos Englezakis, Fr. Georges Florovsky, Prof. Constantine Scouteris, Prof. George Mantzarides, Prof. John Fountoulis, and particularly to Mtp Kallistos Ware, Prof. Panayiotes Chrestou, Fr. John Romanides, and Mtp Hierotheos Vlachos: certain sentences and phrases utilized in these presentations are taken directly from my notes of some of their lectures. My presentations have been enriched by all of the above sources, owing to the adoption of certain structures, lists, schemata, and the paraphrasing of themes taken from them. Responsibility for the content of my presentations is of course mine alone. ©Christopher Veniamin 2024