Mystical Theology: Introducing the Theology and Spiritual Life of the Orthodox Church
The Mount Thabor Academy
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“Mystical Theology: Introducing the Theology and Spiritual Life of the Orthodox Church”, with Prof. Christopher Veniamin Mystical Theology: Introducing the Theology and Spiritual Life of the Orthodox Church, with particular reference to the Holy Bible and the witness of the Church Fathers, past and present. Available Units thus far: Unit 1: Introduction: Holy Scripture, Greek Philosophy, Philo of Alexandria (Season 3) Unit 2: Irenaeus of Lyons (Season 3) Unit 3: Clement the Alexandrian (Season 3) Unit 4: Origen (Season 3) Unit 5: Athanasius the Great (Season 3) Unit 6: The Cappadocian Fathers (Season 3) Unit 7: Augustine of Hippo (Season 3) Unit 8: John Chrysostom (Season 3) Unit 9: Cyril of Alexandria (Season 3) Unit 14: Gregory Palamas (Season 1) Unit 15: John of the Ladder (Season 4) Unit 16: Silouan and Sophrony the Athonites (Season 2) MISCELLANEOUS Members-only: Special Editions (Season 5) Empirical Dogmatics: The Theology of Fr. John Romanides (Season 6) Recommended background reading: Christopher Veniamin, ed., Saint Gregory Palamas: The Homilies (https://mountthabor.com/products/saint-gregory-palamas-the-homilies) ; and The Enlargement of the Heart (https://mountthabor.com/products/the-enlargement-of-the-heart-2nd-ed), by Archimandrite Zacharias ; Christopher Veniamin, ed., Saint Gregory Palamas: The Homilies (https://mountthabor.com/products/saint-gregory-palamas-the-homilies) (Dalton PA: 2022) ; The Orthodox Understanding of Salvation: "Theosis" in Scripture and Tradition (https://mountthabor.com/products/the-orthodox-understanding-of-salvation-by-dr-christopher-veniamin) (2016) ; The Transfiguration of Christ in Greek Patristic Literature (https://mountthabor.com/products/the-transfiguration-in-greek-patristic-literature-from-irenaeus-of-lyons-to-gregory-palamas) (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). It is hoped that these presentations will help the enquirer discern the profound interrelationship between Orthodox theology and the Orthodox Christian life, and to identify the ascetic and pastoral significance of the Orthodox ethos contained therein. 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. John Romanides, Fr. Pavlos Englezakis, Fr. Georges Florovsky, Prof. Constantine Scouteris, Prof. George Mantzarides, Prof. John Fountoulis, Mtp Hierotheos Vlachos, Mtp Kallistos Ware, and Prof. Panayiotes Chrestou. My presentations have been enriched by all of the above sources. Responsibility however for the content of my presentations is of course mine alone. ©Christopher Veniamin 2024
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- 12 Aug 2023
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- 26 May 2026
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Episode 45: Dionysius the Areopagite, Authorship & Dating, C. Veniamin
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Episode 44: Dionysius the Areopagite, Introduction, C. Veniamin
25 May 2025
Episode 42: Caveat on Trinity and Grace of God, Part 6 of Cyril of Alexandria, C. Veniamin
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Episode 45: Dionysius the Areopagite, Authorship & Dating, C. Veniamin
Published 26 May 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] This body of work, scholars say, was probably written much later than the historical disciple of St. Paul. in 482. Why? Well, the reason why scholars say this, well, there are several reasons. First of all, it's noticeable that these works are never mentioned in the first five centuries of the Christian era. In the Bibliotheca of Saint Photius the Great, the first section, at the very beginning, he mentions a certain Theodore who maintained that the Dionysian corpus is authentic. So Photius was surprised that this Theodore believe that, yes, these are the works of the Dionysius of Acts 17, the disciple of St. […]
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