In this post I will quoting from St. Augustine’s On the Holy Trinity, Book 15. All emphasis will be mine.
Chapter 25.— The Question Why the Holy Spirit is Not Begotten, and How He Proceeds from the Father AND the Son, Will Only Be Understood When We are in Bliss.
For if any belong to Him, although far duller in intellect than those, yet when they are freed from the body at the end of this life,…
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In this post I will cite some of the very early witnesses for the Church’s belief in the doctrine of creatio ex nihilo, that God created all things from nothing. All emphasis is mine.
The Shepherd of Hermas (Book II)
Commandment 1
On Faith in God.
First of all, believe that there is one God who created and finished all things, and made all things out of nothing. He alone is able to contain…
The letter was written by Eusebius of Caesarea to his congregation, explaining why he and the others fully embraced and consented to the initial creedal formulation of Nicaea. In so doing, Eusebius is shown to be a Trinitarian who did not teach that the Son and the Spirit are creatures which were brought into being from nothing (creatio ex nihilo). All emphasis will be mine.
Letter on the…
I continue from where I left off from Book II of Origen’s commentary on John: Origen: Trinity, Creatio Ex Nihilo & the Church as Spiritual Israel.
So many meanings occur to us at once of the word arche. We have now to ask…
In this post I will be quoting from the Commentary on John (Origen).
The citations that I will be providing will help the readers see that Origen affirms,
The Monarchy (monarchia) of the Father, that he is the unbegotten Source of Divinity.
Christ is the uncreated Wisdom of God, being the timelessly begotten Son of the Father.
Christ is the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End, the…
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We can visualize almost all human thinking as variants on cause-effect logic. The worst malfunction confuses instance and essence, reading the instance (specific example) of something as generalized and universal. A related failing is effect-cause logic. This relates mostly to categorical thinking. Confusing the instance and essence is the root of most mistaken categorical identifications; […]
The following excerpts are from Origen’s Commentary on the Gospel of John. In this section, Origen will argue for the Father being stronger and greater than the Son, and the Spirit owing his existence/essence to the Son, and not just the Father alone. However, Origen makes it clear that he doesn’t mean this in terms of the Son and Spirit being created from nothing or creation, but in respect to…
This excerpt is taken from St. Athanasius who claims that the language adopted by Nicaea to describe the Son’s essential equality with the Father isn’t new but quite ancient, going back to at least 130 years earlier. Athanasius exposed the Arian heretics by appealing to an unbroken chain of Apostolic succession of Bishops to prove that the Church has always taught this truth about the Son.
With…
In this post I will cite the works of three intellectual and spiritual giants of the Faith to show how they interpreted Genesis 1:26-27, particularly verse, where God uses plural pronouns when speaking of making man in the image and likeness of God. The readers will see that these magnificent men of the Church took the plural as proof that the Trinity created mankind in their image and likeness.…
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The quotations from St. Augustine are taken from On the Trinity, Book 1. All emphasis will be mine.
Chapter 8.— The Texts of Scripture Explained Respecting the Subjection of the Son to the Father, Which Have Been Misunderstood. Christ Will Not So Give Up the Kingdom to the Father, as to Take It Away from Himself. The Beholding Him is the Promised End of All Actions. The Holy Spirit is Sufficient…
In this post I will quote from a few fathers and saints of the Church whom all believed that the reason the Son honored the Father as his God is because of the Incarnation, as a result of the eternal Word becoming flesh and taking on a human nature. All emphasis will be mine.
Hippolytus
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In this post I will share a few quotes from St. Gregory in respect to the Filioque, e.g., the Holy Spirit’s eternal procession from the Father by/through the Son. All emphasis will be mine.
Indeed, it would be a lengthy task to set out in detail from the Scriptures those constructions which are inexactly expressed, in order to prove the statement I have made; where, however, there is a…
In his refutation to the Arians, the beloved saint and outstanding defenders of the most Glorious and Holy Trinity, St. Athanasius lists Origen among those who held to an orthodox of the Trinity and Deity of Christ. All emphasis will be mine.
Chapter 6.— Authorities in Support of the Council. Theognostus; Dionysius of Alexandria; Dionysius of Rome; Origen.