Nielsen’s Nook

Relevant links: John Meyendorff's Christ in Eastern Christian Thought. Original participation Analogous Freedom of the Image of God Sin as a consequence of servitude to the demonic Redemption as a recapitulation of the human nature in the risen Christ 1Many aspects of the ascetical tradition of the Christian East can present to the Western observer a Pelagian aspect.... [If] one remembers the conception of the image ...

Relevant links: John Meyendorff's Christ in Eastern Christian Thought. Christological Crisis Origenism Integration of neo-Platonic thought Salvation of humanity Humanity's relationship with God Humanity's final destiny Image of God in humanity and the destiny of that image Original Sin Redemption consensus patrumBut original freedom also supposes the possibility of the fall, which the Fathers interpreted as a revolt against God and therefore as a sort of suicide, for a crime directed ...

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Relevant links: John Meyendorff's Christ in Eastern Christian Thought. Snapshot of Origen. 4. "God Suffered in the Flesh" (1 of 2)theopaschismontologically[On the one hand,] the natures, even after the union, are two, because the uncreated divine essence can never as such be partaken of in any form by the created nature…. But, on the other hand, the humanity assumed by the Logos, ...

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Relevant links: John Meyendorff's Christ in Eastern Christian Thought. Snapshot of Origen. The Origenist Crisis of the Sixth Century (1 of 2).materializeThere was ... no incarnation of the Word. There was an abasement of the ????-Christ for the salvation of all creatures, in the various degrees of their fallen existence, in order to restore them to their primitive unity (p 55).Whoever says ...

John Meyendorff's Christ in Eastern Christian Thought. Cosmology: Creation is co-eternal with God. Anthropology: Like Plato, Origen believed in the pre-existence of souls. Christology: Christ is not the λÏ?γοÏ? (logos). Rather Christ is a soul that inhabited a human body (Platonic influence). This is similar to the "assumed man" of Nestorius that did not distinguish between eternal generation of the Son and ...

John Meyendorff's Christ in Eastern Christian Thought Dyophysites: These theologians remained faithful to Antiochene Christology and considered Chalcedon a post humous victory for Theodore of Mopsuestia - and a partial disavowal of Cyril of Alexandria. Monophysites: Considered Chalcedon a return to Nestorianism. Rejecting the council they retained Cyril's formulation "one single incarnate nature of the God-Word" which undoubtedly consisted of "two ...

Today man in his actions is possessed by the irrational imagination of the passions, deceived by concupiscence, or pre-occupied either by the contrivances of science because of his needs, or by the desire to learn the principles of nature according to its laws. None of these compulsions existed for man originally, since he was above everything. For thus man must ...