To: kosta50; Forest Keeper; adiaireton8; P-Marlowe; Blogger; HarleyD; Dr. Eckleburg; wmfights; ...
"In his human nature, in her flesh. God the Word has no flesh, no form, nor shape, no humanity."
This presents the once (and perhaps still) perceived tension between σαρκοθεντα and ενανθρωπησαντα. Both terms are used by the Fathers in the Creed to describe the Incarnation and in English they seem to mean the same thing but in fact they carry different shades of meaning. Generally, it has been held that Athanasian theology was Λογος-σαρζ based while the Antiochian was Λογος-ανθρωπος. Protopresbyter George Dragas who is Professor of Patristics at Holy Cross Seminary has written a new book on this issue called "Saint Athanasius of Alexandria, Original Research and New Perspectives".
Off to the office; more on this later.
3,062 posted on
12/29/2006 4:27:14 AM PST by
Kolokotronis
(Christ is Risen, and you, o death, are annihilated!)
To: Kolokotronis; Forest Keeper; adiaireton8; P-Marlowe; Blogger; HarleyD; Dr. Eckleburg; wmfights
This presents the once (and perhaps still) perceived tension between sarkoqenta and enanqrwpensanta.
Both terms are used by the Fathers in the Creed to describe the Incarnation and in English they seem to mean the same thing but in fact they carry different shades of meaning Yes, the shades are very well expressed in Slavonic as well, using exact equivalents to Greek terms: воплотившагося and вочеловечшася, the former meaning enfleshed (literaly) and the latter human, not just a "man."
3,064 posted on
12/29/2006 6:00:30 AM PST by
kosta50
(Eastern Orthodoxy is pure Christianity)
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