Series: Mystical Theology
Episode 24: “De Trinitate”, Book IX, Augustine of Hippo: An Orthodox Perspective, Part 5, Dr. C. Veniamin
In Part 5 of “Augustine of Hippo: An Orthodox Perspective”, Episode 24 of our series in “Mystical Theology”, we conclude our remarks on St. Augustine’s “Commentary on Ps. 134:3 (135:3)”, and then begin reading from Book IX of his “de Trinitate”. Particular attention is given to Augustine’s understanding of “sure knowledge” in the Life to Come in contrast to the Patristic understanding of the vision of God, as expressed by St. Irenaeus of Lyons. Other themes broached in this episode are listed in the Timestamps below.
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Recommended background reading: Christopher Veniamin, ed., Saint Gregory Palamas: The Homilies (Dalton PA: 2022): [ Ссылка ] ; The Orthodox Understanding of Salvation: "Theosis" in Scripture and Tradition (2016): [ Ссылка ] ; The Transfiguration of Christ in Greek Patristic Literature: [ Ссылка ] (2022) ; 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).
Further bibliography may be found in our "Scholar's Corner" webpage: [ Ссылка ].
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TIMESTAMPS
0:20 Recap
3:01 The true man - the Logistikon
3:57 The Logistikon: “noesis” and “dianoia”
5:30 The place of the body
6:07 “Mens” and the two Analogies of Mind
6:28 First Analogy of Mind
6:51 Second Analogy of Mind
8:16 Augustine and the Orthodox tradition
9:01 The revelation of “I AM” to Moses
12:48 De Trinitate Book IX
16:32 “Sure faith” and “sure knowledge”
17:42 The vision of Christ in glory in this life
19:04 The threefold light of Christ
19:49 “Not yet, but in the life to come”
20:21 Sanctification a dynamic state: Irenaeus of Lyons
21:56 Irenaeus compared to Plato, Origen and Augustine
23:45 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
