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68The Divine Glory and the Divine EnergiesFaith and Philosophy 23 (3): 279-298. 2006.Is the divine glory a creature, or is it God? The awkwardness of the question suggests that there is something wrong with the dichotomy in terms of which it is posed. A similar question can be asked about the divine "energies" (erzergeiai) in the New Testament. Both of these Scriptural themes challenge us to rethink our preconceptions about the nature of God and the relationship between creatures and Creator. In this paper I describe the interpretation of the divine glory and divine energies gi…Read more
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30The Vision of God in Philo of AlexandriaAmerican Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 72 (4): 483-500. 1998.
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2Maximus the confessorIn Lloyd P. Gerson (ed.), The Cambridge History of Philosophy in Late Antiquity, Cambridge University Press. pp. 2--813. 2010.
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810The Divine Liturgy as Mystical ExperienceEuropean Journal for Philosophy of Religion 7 (2): 137--151. 2015.Most characterizations of mystical experience emphasize its private, esoteric, and non-sensory nature. Such an understanding is far removed from the original meaning of the term mystikos. For the ancient Greeks, the ”mystical’ was that which led participants into the awareness of a higher reality, as in the initiatory rites of the ancient mystery cults. This usage was taken over by the early Church, which similarly designated the Christian sacraments and their rites as ”mystical’ because they dr…Read more
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