Orthodox Apologetics

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maximus said...

Lvka,

Check out this PDF from the appendix of the Eastern Orthodox Bible: http://www.orthodoxanswers.org/filioque.pdf

It is one of the best articles I've ever read in reference to the Filioque. The EOB is awesome and you can also download it for free.

www.orthodoxanswers.org/eob

This is what the West used to mean by Filioque:

St. Maximus the Confessor: "For the procession they [those at Rome] brought the witness of the Latin Fathers, as well, of course, as that of St Cyril of Alexandria in his sacred study on the Gospel of St John. On this basis they showed that they themselves do not make the Son Cause (αίτία) of the Spirit. They know, indeed, that the Father is the sole cause of the Son and of the Spirit, of one by generation and of the other by procession (ἐκπόρευσις) — but they explained that the latter comes (προϊέναι) through the Son, and they showed in this way the unity and the immutability of the essence.” -Letter to Marinus

Notice the two different Greek words? Herein lies the problem of later Latin theology long seperated from the East:

"As St. Maximos explained, the orthodox filioque is not about the ekporevsis but the proienai. The Eastern Orthodox concern, as we have seen in John Zizioulas, is that 'the distinction between εκπορεύεσθαι and προείναι was not made in Latin theology, which used the same term, procedere, to denote both realities'.”

Thanks so much for all your labors...it's much appreciated!

October 16, 2010 at 5:27 PM