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Piety, Piety, but where is the love that moves mountain?

«A voz divina concede aquilo que é pedido por meio das coisas que ela recusa, oferecendo, em poucas palavras, um imenso abismo de pensamento: a munificência de Deus lhe concede a realização de seu desejo; mas ao mesmo tempo não lhe promete o repouso ou a saciedade. E, de fato, ele não se teria mostrado ao seu servidor se essa visão tivesse sido tal, que chegasse a dar fim ao desejo do vidente. Pois é nisto que consiste a verdadeira visão de Deus: no fato de que aquele que levanta os olhos para Ele, não cessa jamais de desejá-lo. É por isso que ele diz: "Tu não poderás ver minha face. De fato, homem algum jamais verá minha face sem morrer".» —São Gregorio de nissa, Sobre a vida de Moisés (404A.)

@pwhhjr also where is this from

@pwhhjr Trvke

This is what I mean when I say I'm an augustinian

@L00seN00se where?

@nyssenizer His trinitarian theology is heretical btw

trillions must read written by a british analytic philosopher who recently converted to Eastern Orthodoxy.

@orthobrohammer Nothing intellectually substantive here tbh. Try actually articulating a claim.

@nyssenizer Sijuwade is a great example that you can build a career out of making things up. That's "analytic theology" for you. Shameful.

@orthobrohammer Did not respond to question. Go again.

@nyssenizer Main character syndrome. Cope harder.

@orthobrohammer Otherwise, we’re just getting tripped over “isms.” The point of the paper is simply that free will arguments are not sufficient ones. Of course, if something’s de facto heresy to you, you wouldn’t care about free will arguments so there should be no problem.

@orthobrohammer And there is no definition provided in the paper without direct reference to Gregory’s own words—so if someone can say “no being will remain outside the saved” and not be a universalist to you, then that’s whatever position is being discussed.

@orthobrohammer Because the only one accusing Gregory of heresy is yourself.

@orthobrohammer Yes or no

@desertcynic Fond of neither. But why is being a retarded obscurantist preferable?

@nyssenizer >recent convert >analytic philosophy No thanks.

@orthobrohammer free will arguments are dogshit. get over it.

@orthobrohammer womp womp

remember to love God and others

biblical literalism is spiritually jewish (derogatory)

So he would draw aside the veil of mystery and explain in a spiritual sense the meanings of things which, if understood literally, appeared to be teaching what was wrong.” (Confessions 6.4)

when I used to criticize your holy ones for holding various views which, plainly, they never held at all. And I was happy when I heard Ambrose … recommend most emphatically … this text as a rule to go by: The letter kills, but the spirit gives life.

Blessed Augustine, favorably recounting the Pauline-Origenian hermeneutics of Saint Ambrose of Milan: “I was glad… that the old Scriptures of the Law and the Prophets were set before me in such a way that I could now read in a different spirit from that which I had had before,-