Michael Lofton asks Jay about essence and energies, created and uncreated grace, authority in Orthodoxy, Gregory Palamas, Maximus the Confessor, among many other related topics!
“1. Sanctifying Grace is a created supernatural gift really distinct from God. (Sent. fidei proxima.” -Ludwig Ott
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Luc is finally getting what he wanted so bad – a debate! We will be discussing ADS and the Roman Catholic dogmas over against the Orthodox views. Luc is a Uniate. The debate is tonight at 10Pm EST
Here is a list of the first few statements from Ott on grace:
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.
