The Cappadocian Fathers, Pt 3: The "Monarchy" of God the Father, Ep 18, Prof. Christopher Veniamin

Mystical Theology: Introducing the Theology and Spiritual Life of the Orthodox Church

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.
Q&As available in The Professor’s Blog: https://mountthabor.com/blogs/the-professors-blog
Recommended background reading: Christopher Veniamin, ed., Saint Gregory Palamas: The Homilies (Dalton PA: 2022): https://mountthabor.com/products/saint-gregory-palamas-the-homilies ; The Orthodox Understanding of Salvation: "Theosis" in Scripture and Tradition (2016): https://mountthabor.com/products/the-orthodox-understanding-of-salvation-by-dr-christopher-veniamin ; 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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Capitole

1. The Monarchy of the Father (00:00:00)

2. Essence and Natural Energy (00:02:59)

3. Generation and Procession (00:05:57)

4. Consubstantiality = One Essence and Energy from the Father to Son and Spirit (00:06:22)

5. Sempiternity = Before all Ages (00:07:01)

6. Human language bound up with Time and implicit orders of rank (00:08:10)

7. “Theologia” and “Economia” (00:08:35)

8. One of the Holy Trinity became flesh (00:09:12)

9. Orthodox theology = “Signposts”, “Pointers”, “Symbols” (00:09:44)

10. Theology is Experience of God seen in the Saints (00:10:08)

11. Distinctions within the Godhead (00:10:42)

12. The Incarnation of God the Word (00:13:04)

13. The Divine Eucharist (00:13:31)

14. Three sets of characteristics (00:14:01)

15. Hypostasis and Energy (00:14:14)

16. Three hypostatic modes of existence (00:15:13)

17. “Ta koina” (things shared) and “ta akoinonita” (things not shared) (00:15:22)

18. The Father is “unbegotten” (00:15:49)

19. The Son is “begotten” (00:16:05)

20. The Spirit is “begotten” (00:16:18)

21. Gregory the Theologian: “relation” (00:17:04)

22. Augustine’s “relation” approach essentialist (00:19:59)

23. “Precession” (Gk “ekporeusis”) (00:20:23)

24. The “Monarchia” of God the Father (00:21:45)

25. Reality of God transcends language, concepts and mind (00:22:35)

26. Purpose of God’s creation of mankind (00:25:16)

27. Appeal (00:26:52)