Today we answer some questions relating to the basic questions surrounding the first 7 Ecumenical Councils, what they covered, why they were convened and how to interpret their main dogmatic pronouncements. From Nicaea I to Nicaea II, this brief introduction is dealt with in greater detail in talks listed below. If you like this […]
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Join Al Fadi & Jay Dyer on a Let Us Reason Livestream PRIME
Topic: The Early Church Views on Various Doctrines!
Join Al Fadi and brother Jay Dyer (Jays Analysis) as they discuss the views taken by the early church on certain essential biblical doctrines such as the Trinity and the Monarchy of the Father.
Dr. Beau Branson joins me for a round table discussion with Carlos Xavier of the Human Jesus to discuss the controversial aspects of the history of patristic and biblical debates about dogmatics. We will cover OT and NT texts, the patristic era and the philosophical and metaphysical questions of who Jesus was and what the evidence supports in terms of dogmatic claims. Tonight at 7PM CST
Long requested, I cover the topic of the best of the worst of the ancient heresies and how the same spirit behind them has manifested today under different names and guises. From Arianism to gnosticism to Origenism, we see how the realm of the demonic lacks any creativity. With evil, we get the same dialectical traps we always, have, as Hellenism and its atheism are rehashed in ways you don’t expect.
I will be covering the ridiculous accusation that St Athanasius taught absolute divine simplicity as illustrated from the definitive Fr Florovsky paper on the subject, analyzing De Decretis, and looking again at the theophanies and how Triadology developed from St Athanasius to St Basil in letters 38 and 234, to St Maximos and the 6th Council, into St. John of Damascus and the Confession of St. Sophronius and into the medieval Orthodox councils that define eternal manifestation as binding and how this is admitted in the Vatican Clarification on the Filioque.
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By: Jay Dyer
Moses saw and communed with a Personal God, not a created light and not a generic essence.
“When God was conversing with Moses, He did not say, “I am the essence”, but “I am the One Who is.” Thus it is not the One Who is who derives from the essence, but essence which derives from Him, for it is He who contains all being in Himself.” -St. Gregory Palamas, Triads in Defense of the Holy Hesychasts, III.ii.12
By: Jay Dyer
