RLG340H5 Lecture 3: RLG340 Lecture 3 - Theologians
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Athanasius, barlaam, gregory of nyssa. Indecisive because they are trying to get something new from god. God: its hard to understand him from a physical point of view, its not something scientific, or physical. Deification: author keeps making fun of the western, he says the western is stuck on the mind, intellectual proposition. He says that theology is experiencing god, not doing it with rules . They say that it is something. You need to experience what is in the faith. We can look back or we can look forward: we can be mysticism now. They were not really apart in the long run though, this is the idea of symphony. Page 2, 3rd paragraph. Looking at chalcedon this is very easy if you sit down and read the history of it. Mindorf gives us a bird"s eye view. He is the towering images of studying byzantine.
