Dr. Torstein Tollefsen joins me to cover his masterful work on the Christocentric Cosmology of St Maximos and the Logoi doctrine. We discuss the advanced issues St. Maximos covers in his metaphysics, the concept of the Porphyrian tree, the relationship of Neoplatonism to St. Maximos, universals and particulars, recapitulation, the logoi of being and […]
What are the central differences between Latin and Eastern theology? Is there are common thread of difference that gives rise to two different approaches to divinity, knowledge, revelation and eschatology? Yes, I argue. I discuss Augustine, Aquinas, absolute divine simplicity as borrowed from Aristotle and Plato, the Logos, the Greek triad, I Am as “pure being,” Anselm, the analogia entis/chain of being, apophatic theology, theosis, created grace, divine energies, divine ideas, and the supposed ‘beatific vision.’
