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I’m confused about the Essence and energies of God and how they’re different. Can someone please explain?
Will we be able to see the essence of God in Heaven?the essence is God known only to God, the energies are God revealed
Will we be able to see the essence of God in Heaven?
I’m confused about the Essence and energies of God and how they’re different. Can someone please explain?
Does that mean it's eternity itself?no, God’s essence is forever beyond us
Does that mean it's eternity itself?
I’m confused about the Essence and energies of God and how they’re different. Can someone please explain?
E/E distinction is explained here:
I’m confused about the Essence and energies of God and how they’re different. Can someone please explain?
This is a nice video to explain the difference.
How does this differ from the Roman Catholic view? What problems did Medieval Catholic theologians see with the Palamite view? How do they view to relationship of God to His creation, both in time and in eternity?
And . . . is this a good description of Open Theism:
Open Theism | Monergism
Thanks for helping with my nascent Orthodox phronema!
My understanding is that Palamism was thought to be incompatible with Scholastic/Thomistic Absolute Divine Simplicity (although not Divine Simplicity in a Patristic sense). This is based on my reading of both editions of Orthodoxy and Heterodoxy by Fr. Andrew Stephen Damick.