Theology & Doctrine

The foundational truths of the faith: Trinity, Christology, Pneumatology, soteriology

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    The Undivided Light: The Holy Trinity (Post 1 of 7)

    ByJobin

    The first post in the new summer series on Seeking Theosis is up.

    The series is called The Undivided Light: The Holy Trinity, and it runs every Wednesday through the summer. This first post asks a simple but important question: why Trinity? It begins not with a definition but with Pentecost, looking at what actually happened on that day and why it reveals the Trinity more clearly than any diagram or formula ever could.

    Three church fathers guide the reading in this post: Ephrem the Syrian, Cyril of Alexandria, and Jacob of Serugh. Their writings are referenced at the end of the post for anyone who wants to follow up.

    You can read it at seekingtheosis.blog.

    Do share it with anyone who might benefit, and prayers for the series as it continues week by week would be very much appreciated.

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    The Undivided Light: The Holy Trinity | Introduction

    ByJobin

    A new series begins on Seeking Theosis this Wednesday.

    After Pentecost, the Church enters what is perhaps the most demanding season of all: the season of learning to live inside the mystery that has been fully given to us. That mystery is the Holy Trinity.

    “The Undivided Light: The Holy Trinity” is a Wednesday summer study walking through Trinitarian theology as received and expressed in the Oriental

    Orthodox tradition, through the voices of Ephrem the Syrian, Jacob of Serugh, Cyril of Alexandria, Severus of Antioch, and the liturgical prayers of the Malankara Qurbana.

    Seven posts. Seven Wednesdays. One mystery that is not a problem to be solved but a life to be received.

    The introductory post is up now.

    And if you think of it, please pray for the writer as this series gets underway.

    To read the full blog –

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    The Feast of Pentecost: The Fire Has Fallen

    ByJobin

    *Feast of Pentecost – The Fire Has Fallen*

    Blessed Feast of Pentecost, dear brothers and sisters.

    The nine days of waiting are over. The fire has fallen.

    The feast day reflection is now on the blog, drawing on the prayers and readings of our own Pentecosti service alongside the Syriac patristic tradition.

    It sits with the three-service structure of the feast, the theology of the sprinkling of blessed water, the tripartite gift of the Trinity poured out on the gathered community, and the connection between Pentecost and the theology of theosis that gives the Seeking Theosis blog its name.

    One line from the liturgy has stayed with me through the morning: _the opening prayer that asks to be made worthy to receive the spiritual drink of the new wine of the Comforter Spirit._

    The new wine is being poured on the morning of Pentecosti Sunday. May our vessels be open to receive it.

    Come, Holy Spirit. Ta Ruha d-Qudsha. Come.