“De Trinitate”, Book IX, Augustine of Hippo: An Orthodox Perspective, Part 5, Dr. C. Veniamin

Mystical Theology: Introducing the Theology and Spiritual Life of the Orthodox Church

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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); The Orthodox Understanding of Salvation: "Theosis" in Scripture and Tradition (2016); The Transfiguration of Christ in Greek Patristic Literature (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.

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Κεφάλαια

1. Recap (00:00:00)

2. The Logistikon: “noesis” and “dianoia” (00:03:37)

3. The place of the body (00:05:10)

4. “Mens” and the two Analogies of Mind (00:05:47)

5. First Analogy of Mind (00:06:08)

6. Second Analogy of Mind (00:06:31)

7. Augustine and the Orthodox tradition (00:07:56)

8. The revelation of “I AM” to Moses (00:08:41)

9. De Trinitate Book IX (00:12:28)

10. “Sure faith” and “sure knowledge” (00:16:12)

11. The vision of Christ in glory in this life (00:17:22)

12. The threefold light of Christ (00:18:44)

13. “Not yet, but in the life to come” (00:19:29)

14. Sanctification a dynamic state: Irenaeus of Lyons (00:20:01)

15. Irenaeus compared to Plato, Origen and Augustine (00:21:36)

16. Appeal (00:23:25)