Author: Fr. Georges Florovsky

Publisher: Vladimir Djambov

Published: 2020-04-06

Total Pages: 507

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“Wealth without work Pleasure without conscience Science without humanity Knowledge without character Politics without principle Commerce without morality Worship without sacrifice. https://vidjambov.blogspot.com/2023/01/book-inventory-vladimir-djambov-talmach.html With the beginning of the IV century, a new era opens in the life of the Church. The empire in the person of the Equal-to-the-Apostles Caesar receives baptism. The Church emerges from its forced closure and accepts the exacting ancient world under its sacred vaults. /// “Teaching that each name is assigned its own meaning, because names are signs of named objects…” “When in the Trinity it is necessary to make an unreadable idea for yourself according to distinctive signs,” St. Basil says – “then to the definition of a distinctive one we take what is not imaginable at all, such as, for example, “non-creation” or “intangibleness” to any concepts, or the like, but we will look for one that will separate each person’s concept clearly and unmistakably from that which is presented together” – this special and distinctive (identifiable) sign… And “until the thought reaches an unadulterated idea of the personal properties of each, it is impossible for it to give thanks to the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit,” St. Basil concludes. It must be emphasized, St. Basil demands the confession of three hypostases, he emphasizes the concept of hypostasis and is not satisfied with the mere recognition of “three persons.” For the concept of “person” is devoid of the certainty that is introduced in to the concept of “hypostasis” by the very etymology of the word – with the suffix giving the root meaning a shade of static but not dynamic (not procedural). “He who shies away from the expression of “three hypostases,” St. Basil remarks, “is compelled to profess only a difference of faces… and does not avoid Savelli’s evil, for Savelli, merging concepts in every possible way, intensified the separation of faces, saying that the same hypostasis is transformed according to every need.” The concept of hypostasis of St. Basil seeks to exclude any shade of such a fluid transformation, it seeks to emphasize that the Three Each have “own being”.