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2012-10-17T16:13:59-06:00

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Trinitarian Spirituality, 20: Gregory’s Key to Bible Study

Last updated on: October 17, 2012 at 4:13 pm By K. Mulhern

As we pick up our conversation about Gregory of Nyssa, I want to recall what Anatolios calls the “limitless horizon” of faith—that our understanding and trust can never seize the fullness of God, they can only move in the direction of that truth. The horizon of God always extends itself infinitely before us. “The inexhaustible plenitude of God”—the never-ending, infinite depth and breadth of the reality of God’s being—is the invitation to an “endless journey” of relationship. All our doctrines,... Read more

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2019-01-16T11:34:03-07:00

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Trinitarian Spirituality, 19: An Ephesian Interlude

Last updated on: January 16, 2019 at 11:34 am By K. Mulhern

My apologies for missing a few posts while I sailed the deep blue sea . . . and visited Ephesus, one of the most important cities of the Byzantine empire throughout the 3rd, 4th, and 5th centuries. (Consider it blog research … with champagne.) Even today, its ruins are glorious, confetti from ancient glory—pillars lining grand avenues with marble pavements, the echoes of small shops lining the route, the public toilets (okay, not so much glory there). Perhaps... Read more

Trinitarian Spirituality: a series

2012-10-17T16:09:22-06:00

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Trinitarian Spirituality, 18: Believing in the Right Direction

Last updated on: October 17, 2012 at 4:09 pm By K. Mulhern

If Athanasius was too big for words—too grand, too dominating, too heroic—Gregory of Nyssa comes as a refreshing change of pace. A married man (meet Mrs. Nyssa, probably named Theosebeia … an option to consider, all you future young parents), a guy devoted to his big brother (St. Basil), and even a man who got into some trouble and lost his job. (What? a saint lost his job?? what’s to become of the rest of us??) Gregory, like Athanasius,... Read more

Trinitarian Spirituality: a series

2012-10-17T16:10:24-06:00

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Trinitarian Spirituality, 17: Luminosity

Last updated on: October 17, 2012 at 4:10 pm By K. Mulhern

Thus far, our conversation about the Three-in-One God we worship has been pretty much a Two-for-One deal. We have spent a great deal of time examining the nature of the relationship between Jesus and God, between the Father and the Son. And the Spirit? This would be a good time to take a little detour from Anatolios in order to return to the “key exception” I mentioned in Trinity 5. We were looking at the Nicene Creed, and its... Read more

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2019-11-13T18:59:45-07:00

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Trinitarian Spirituality, 16: On the Incarnation, a New Kind of Christmas Story

Last updated on: November 13, 2019 at 6:59 pm By K. Mulhern

We’ve earlier identified Athanasius as the bulldog of orthodoxy, the one who simply would not let go when it seemed that the entire Christian world was going Arian. You know, Athanasius was probably, as we might say, a piece of work. I don’t see him as the wise and wonderful guru sort, all gentle and calm like the Dalai Lama. He was probably pretty fiery and insufferable, just the sort we like to tune out. We don’t mind our political... Read more

Trinitarian Spirituality: a series

2012-10-17T16:14:52-06:00

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Trinitarian Spirituality, 15: God from the Inside Out

Last updated on: October 17, 2012 at 4:14 pm By K. Mulhern

Last week we left ourselves with a strange God and a God who is a stranger. Bette Midler’s lyrics could have come straight from a 4th-century Arian! God is watching us God is watching us God is watching us From a distance If Arius, Eusebius, Eunomius, and their comrades had had their way, the Son would be nothing more than a very unique product of God’s will. Begotten out of God’s desire to communicate his incommunicable majesty, the Son serves... Read more

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2012-10-17T16:16:31-06:00

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Trinitarian Spirituality, 14: Putting Jesus on the “Outside” of God

Last updated on: October 17, 2012 at 4:16 pm By K. Mulhern

Is the Son “inside” of God or “outside” of God? This seems to be the heart of the question when we think of Arius’ solution, and those that followed his line of thinking. Arius and his ilk read the gospels and saw the Son sent for us, which is true. At what point, though, was he sent? In fact, at what point was he begotten? Just using the word “point” makes the point. It’s as though Arius and his friends... Read more

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2012-10-17T16:17:36-06:00

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Trinitarian Spirituality, 13: How Close Is Jesus to the Heart of God?

Last updated on: October 17, 2012 at 4:17 pm By K. Mulhern

It all comes back to Jesus. All the goodness, all the blessing, all the wonder – it all comes back to Jesus. But so does all the arguing, all the conflict, all the struggle, all the wrestling – it all comes back to Jesus too. He warned us about the sword he was bringing. The good news is sometimes more like a thunderstorm than a gentle rain. He revolutionized our understanding of God, and revolutions are never quiet affairs. Jesus... Read more

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2012-10-17T16:18:39-06:00

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Trinitarian Spirituality, 12: Creation Spirituality, Human Souls, and the Need for Systems

Last updated on: October 17, 2012 at 4:18 pm By K. Mulhern

If I were writing a Harry Potter novel, at this point I think I’d post a picture of Athanasius, waving and winking at you, just to encourage you. I realize that you may not have signed up for such an intense course of study when you decided to follow this series. I do hope and pray, as I write, that you find some of the ideas and experiences we discuss fruitful in your own life of prayer, your conversations with... Read more

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2012-10-17T16:20:27-06:00

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Trinitarian Spirituality, 11: Riding the Rapids, or the Stream of Orthodox Christianity

Last updated on: October 17, 2012 at 4:20 pm By K. Mulhern

If you’ve stuck with this exploration thus far, you’re doing well. I know we’re wrestling with some complicated issues. I wish I were writing a Harry Potter novel instead. (Steven wishes it oh so much more fervently. I can’t even tell you.) But this is what I’m given, and so this is what I can give. No movie version forthcoming. Anatolios begins the next section of his book by recognizing the apparent problem of continuity and development. That is, if... Read more

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