DISCUSSION ON PATRISTIC THOUGHT

The purpose of this article is to provide a summary of St Athanasius’ treatise On the Incarnation highlighting important themes with respect to his Soteriology and Christology. The Incarnation is for St Athanasius the historical event par excellence, in which the Word manifests His salvific work.[1] In demonstrating the purpose of the Incarnation, he provides or rather requires on the …

Introduction Writing in the late 1930s, the great Swiss theologian Hans Urs von Balthasar observed a process of destruction of Western culture and Christianity that has only increased in the intervening sixty-five years. In such a context, von Balthasar suggested, the inclination on the part of many is to attempt to recover a lost Eden, a garden of delights unspoiled …

    When criticizing the Sophists for their utilitarian and agnostic approach, together with all those who sought to learn about the nature of the world and the laws by which it functions while being indifferent to the knowledge of their own selves, Socrates would say: What, after all, is happening with these people? Did they think they know as …

  Abstract: St Basil’s contribution to the formulation of the doctrine of the Holy Trinity has long been acknowledged in the Christian tradition. Indeed, he was responsible for articulating the ‘orthodox’ vision of God with theological and philosophical originality that truly laid the foundations upon which the way of pondering the Trinitarian mystery in the East was established. His achievement …

  Abstract: St Basil’s contribution to the formulation of the doctrine of the Holy Trinity has long been acknowledged in the Christian tradition. Indeed, he was responsible for articulating the ‘orthodox’ vision of God with theological and philosophical originality that truly laid the foundations upon which the way of pondering the Trinitarian mystery in the East was established. His achievement …