Episode 21: Augustine of Hippo: An Orthodox Perspective, Pt 2, Analogies, with Dr. C. Veniamin

If you enjoy our YouTube channel, consider supporting our The Mount Thabor Academy Patreon page, to unlock exclusive, member-only content:   / themountthaboracademy   Print Books by MOUNT THABOR PUBLISHING: https://www.mountthabor.com eBooks Amazon Kindle: https://www.amazon.com/stores/Christo... Contact us: info@mountthabor.com Series: Mystical Theology Episode 21: Augustine of Hippo: An Orthodox Perspective, Part 2, Analogies, with Prof. Christopher Veniamin In Part 2 of “Augustine of Hippo: An Orthodox Perspective”, Episode 21 of our series in “Mystical Theology”, we present the terminology of St. Augustine's "analogies of Trinity". Our episode begins with a brief clarification regarding Augustine’s two sources of divine revelation: Holy Scripture (analogy of faith) and creation (analogy of being); and then proceeds to refer to Augustine’s place in the study of Patristic theology in the West. Other themes broached in this episode are listed in the Timestamps below. Q&As available in The Professor’s Blog: https://mountthabor.com/blogs/the-pro... Recommended background reading: Christopher Veniamin, ed., Saint Gregory Palamas: The Homilies (Dalton PA: 2022): https://mountthabor.com/products/sain... ; The Orthodox Understanding of Salvation: "Theosis" in Scripture and Tradition (2016): https://mountthabor.com/products/the-... ; The Transfiguration of Christ in Greek Patristic Literature: https://mountthabor.com/products/the-... (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: https://mountthabor.com/pages/the-pro.... TIMESTAMPS 0:00 Clarification: two forms of revelation 2:29 Place of St. Augustine among the Church Fathers 5:47 Oxford Patristics Conference 12:12 Analogies 13:18 Analogy of Love 16:43 Kallistos Ware’s evaluation 18:50 The problem 20:26 Analogies of Mind 21:35 1st Trinity of Mind 24:13 2nd Trinity of Mind 25:18 Memory (memoria) 28:45 Soliloquy 29:24 Psychology & Philosophy 31:25 Why our priests turn to psychology (Short?) 32:25 Healing in the Church (Short?) 33:32 The Enlightenment 35:29 Platonism & Manichaeism 37:12 Soul & Logistikon 37:48 Philosophical understanding of the “nous” 39:05 Understanding (intelligentia) 39:17 Will (voluntas) 41:24 Analogies of Mind not based on Scriptural events 42:46 Gregory the Theologian 46:17 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