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Episode 33: Conclusions to Augustine, Pt 2: Gregory of Nyssa, Life of Moses

Series: Mystical Theology Episode 33: Conclusions to Augustine, Part 2: Gregory of Nyssa, Life of Moses, Part 6 of The Cappadocian Fathers, Dr. C. Veniamin In Episode 33, we have the second part of our Conclusions to the Unit on the Cappadocian Fathers and Augustine of Hippo. This consists of Gregory of Nyssa’s Life of Moses (paragraphs 152-169), in which St. Gregory presents the God-seer Moses in his ascent towards God and deification (theosis). One of the key themes in Nyssa’s account is that of “divine darkness”. Other themes touched upon in this episode are included in the Timestamps. Q&As available in The Professor’s Blog: https://mountthabor.com/blogs/the-pro... Recommended background reading: Christopher Veniamin, ed., Saint Gregory Palamas: The Homilies (Dalton PA: 2022): https://mountthabor.com/products/sain... ; The Orthodox Understanding of Salvation: "Theosis" in Scripture and Tradition (2016): https://mountthabor.com/products/the-... ; The Transfiguration of Christ in Greek Patristic Literature: https://mountthabor.com/products/the-... (2022) ; and Metropolitan Hierotheos Vlachos, Empirical Dogmatics of the Orthodox Catholic Church: According to the Spoken Teaching of Father John Romanides, Vol. 1 (2012), Vol. 2 (repr. ed. 2020). Further bibliography may be found in our "Scholar's Corner" webpage: https://mountthabor.com/pages/the-pro.... – LINKS – Join The Mount Thabor Academy! YouTube FRIENDS AND READERS    / @themtpacademy   Patreon MEMBERSHIP TIERS   / membership   TIMESTAMPS 0:00 Reading Gregory of Nyssa: Life of Moses, par. 152-169 01:27 Mountain of Knowledge of God and the divine darkness 02:07 Distinction between the two tablets of the Law 02:31 Moses and the cloud 02:46 Cleansing of the mind (nous), the water of Marah (Ex 15.22-25), and the “wood” 03:26 Living water - the Rock - heavenly bread - stretching out of Moses’ hands - mystery of the Cross 03:47 Vision of transcendent nature 04:20 Purification of soul and body required 04:43 Washing of clothes: “a respectable habit of life” 05:21 No animal on the mountain 06:40 One must purify one’s conduct to attain to the vision of God 08:01 The Law and the Prophets - trumpets - the Gospel 09:21 The ordering of the Church - Who should be a bishop? (1 Cor. 12.29) 10:54 The divine darkness vs God seen as light 13:24 Knowledge of divine nature inaccessible to every created intelligence 13:35 “Moses entered the darkness where God was” (Ex. 20.21) 15:13 Two halves of religion: that which pertains to God, and good conduct 15:54 The tent “not made with hands” 17:50 Natural contemplation (cf. Maximus the Confessor) 18:35 Commentary 19:12 Gregory of Nyssa: presuppositions Biblical not philosophical 19:27 Burning Bush (Ex. 3.2), Cloud & Pillar of Fire (Ex. 13.21), Dark Cloud (Ex. 20.21) 20:37 “Back parts of God” (Ex. 33.23) 20:48 Progress from light to darkness, into “unknowing” 21:08 Spiritual life: dynamic and unending 22:20 “Darkness” is luminous - Knowing is unknowing 23:07 Song of Songs (PG 44.1001B) 23:49 Spiritual progress “from glory to glory” (2 Cor. 3.18) 23:58 Smashing of idols: reality of God transcends our thoughts of God 24:28 Ecstasy: we transcend even ourselves 25:24 “Reaching forth” (Phil. 3.13) 25:41 Though we can never grasp the essence of God, to seek God is to find Him 26:19 Growth as basic feature of humanity - perfection means growing 26:46 The notion of tension (tonos) 27:02 Continual creation - every end is a new beginning (Comm. Song of Songs) 27:23 Vision of the back parts of God (Exod. 33) 28:10 The smashing of idols - symbolic interpretation to Second Commandment (Ex. 20:4) 28:51 Self-transcendence (ecstasy), vertigo, sober drunkenness, passionate love (eros) 29:46 Asceticism born out of love for God 30:43 Union with God in love - knowledge becomes love (PG 46.96C) 0:00 Appeal ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: I wish to express my indebtedness to the spoken and written traditions of Sts Silouan and Sophrony the Athonites, Fr. Zacharias Zacharou, Fr. Kyrill Akon, Fr. Raphael Noica, Fr. Symeon Brüschweiler; Fr. Pavlos Englezakis, Fr. Georges Florovsky, Prof. Constantine Scouteris, Prof. George Mantzarides, Prof. John Fountoulis, and particularly to Mtp Kallistos Ware, Prof. Panayiotes Chrestou, Fr. John Romanides, and Mtp Hierotheos Vlachos: certain sentences and phrases utilized in these presentations are taken directly from my notes of some of their lectures. My presentations have been enriched by all of the above sources, owing to the adoption of certain structures, lists, schemata, and the paraphrasing of themes taken from them. Responsibility for the content of my presentations is of course mine alone. ©Christopher Veniamin 2024