The Trinity Unpacked - East vs West - Greek vs Revelation
By request, this video is designed to articulate the doctrine of the Trinity. Please note, this is not a defence, I am herein presupposing that the Trinity is a true doctrine.
What I am here to do is to demonstrate that there are in fact 2 different version of the doctrine of the trinity which are fundamentally distinct.
1. Based on Greek Philosophy as articulated by St Augustine and St Thomas Aquinas and formed the post schism Dogma of Roman Catholic church. This view is expressed in the Catholic rendition known as the The Shield of the Trinity or Scutum Fidei.
2. The second is based upon divine revelation and an explicit rejection of Hellenistic categories and which informed the articulation of the Trinity as hashed out in the 7 ecumenical councils, whos main proponents were individuals such as St Basil, Gregory Palamas, Maximus the confessor, St John of Damascus and a few others.
I also go on to try and demonstrate the logical out workings of each view to show why its so important to get them right because their consequences have far reaching influences in how we understand many other doctrines as well.
Journal of the Adventist Theological Society, 17/1 (Spring 2006): 125–139.
Article copyright © 2006 by Merlin D. Burt.
History of Seventh-day Adventist Views on the Trinity
Merlin D. Burt
http://archive.atsjats.org/10Burt-SDA...
28 fundamental beliefs of Adventists
https://szu.adventist.org/wp-content/...
St Augustine
https://www.iep.utm.edu/augustin/
St Thomas Aquinas
https://www.iep.utm.edu/aq-ph-th/#SH4b
Neoplatonism
https://www.iep.utm.edu/neoplato/
Summa Theologiae - Prima Pars
http://www.newadvent.org/summa/1.htm
St Basil Letter 234
http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/3202...
Letter Pope Agatho to 6th council affirming essence energy distinction
http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/3813...
Volume III - Church History
Fourteenth Century
Saint Gregory Palamas
https://www.oca.org/orthodoxy/the-ort...