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| − | The essence energy distinction is the dogmatic theological formula of the Orthodox Church, in accordance with the [https://gocwiki.com/index.php/Sixth_Ecumenical_Council Sixth] (Seventh Century) and [https://gocwiki.com/index.php/Ninth_Ecumenical_Council Ninth] (Fourteenth Century) Ecumenical Councils. Such a dogmatic teaching is in regards to the one, eternal, and absolute [https://gocwiki.com/index.php/God Godhead] being distinguished by the one divine and eternal essence by which the [https://gocwiki.com/index.php/Holy_Trinity three Hypostases/Persons in Triune unity] share and the uncreated energy of the essence. There logically can be no communication between God and man without the essence energy distinction, for both the Fathers and the Councils, and even the scripture, defines the essence of God as incommunicable and therefore, apothéōsis (participating in the essence) would be regarded as heresy within Orthodoxy. Without the essence energy distinction, God is only communicable and participable in regards to his relation with man, by his created effects, yet that which is created cannot be perfect according to [https://gocwiki.com/index.php/Maximus_the_Confessor St.Maximus of the Confessor] in the Tenth Ambigua to John, for coming into being from non-being in of itself is an actualization/operation, and thus, and alteration within time and that which can be altered cannot be perfect, for it would rather make no sense for God to recreate his virtues and infuse them into man as a 'created effect' formally caused by divine grace, as asserted by the impious Post-Schism Western Theologian, Thomas Aquinas, in the Summa Theologiae Prima Secundae Partis, Q.110-114. Therefore, according to the holy Theologians and Fathers in the Church, [https://gocwiki.com/index.php?title=Apostle_John&action=edit&redlink=1 St.John the Apostle], [https://gocwiki.com/index.php/Basil_the_Great St.Basil the Cappadocian], [https://gocwiki.com/index.php/Maximus_the_Confessor St.Maximus the Confessor], and [https://gocwiki.com/index.php/Gregory_Palamas St.Gregory Palamas]. | + | The essence energy distinction is the dogmatic theological formula of the Orthodox Church, in accordance with the [https://gocwiki.com/index.php/Sixth_Ecumenical_Council Sixth] (Seventh Century) and [https://gocwiki.com/index.php/Ninth_Ecumenical_Council Ninth] (Fourteenth Century) Ecumenical Councils. Such a dogmatic teaching is in regards to the one, eternal, and absolute [https://gocwiki.com/index.php/God Godhead] being distinguished by the one divine and eternal essence by which the [https://gocwiki.com/index.php/Holy_Trinity three Hypostases/Persons in Triune unity] share and the uncreated energy of the essence. There logically can be no communication between God and man without the essence energy distinction, for both the Fathers and the Councils, and even the scripture, defines the essence of God as incommunicable and therefore, apothéōsis (participating in the essence) would be regarded as heresy within Orthodoxy. Without the essence energy distinction, God is only communicable and participable in regards to his relation with man, by his created effects, yet that which is created cannot be perfect according to [https://gocwiki.com/index.php/Maximus_the_Confessor St.Maximus of the Confessor] in the Tenth Ambigua to John, for coming into being from non-being in of itself is an actualization/operation, and thus, and alteration within time and that which can be altered cannot be perfect, for it would rather make no sense for God to recreate his virtues and infuse them into man as a 'created effect' formally caused by divine grace, as asserted by the impious Post-Schism Western Theologian, Thomas Aquinas, in the Summa Theologiae Prima Secundae Partis, Q.110-114. Therefore, according to the holy Theologians and Fathers in the Church, such as [https://gocwiki.com/index.php?title=Apostle_John&action=edit&redlink=1 St.John the Apostle], [https://gocwiki.com/index.php/Basil_the_Great St.Basil the Cappadocian], [https://gocwiki.com/index.php/Maximus_the_Confessor St.Maximus the Confessor], and [https://gocwiki.com/index.php/Gregory_Palamas St.Gregory Palamas]. |
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1. Description and Theology
The essence energy distinction is the dogmatic theological formula of the Orthodox Church, in accordance with the Sixth (Seventh Century) and Ninth (Fourteenth Century) Ecumenical Councils. Such a dogmatic teaching is in regards to the one, eternal, and absolute Godhead being distinguished by the one divine and eternal essence by which the three Hypostases/Persons in Triune unity share and the uncreated energy of the essence. There logically can be no communication between God and man without the essence energy distinction, for both the Fathers and the Councils, and even the scripture, defines the essence of God as incommunicable and therefore, apothéōsis (participating in the essence) would be regarded as heresy within Orthodoxy. Without the essence energy distinction, God is only communicable and participable in regards to his relation with man, by his created effects, yet that which is created cannot be perfect according to St.Maximus of the Confessor in the Tenth Ambigua to John, for coming into being from non-being in of itself is an actualization/operation, and thus, and alteration within time and that which can be altered cannot be perfect, for it would rather make no sense for God to recreate his virtues and infuse them into man as a 'created effect' formally caused by divine grace, as asserted by the impious Post-Schism Western Theologian, Thomas Aquinas, in the Summa Theologiae Prima Secundae Partis, Q.110-114. Therefore, according to the holy Theologians and Fathers in the Church, such as St.John the Apostle, St.Basil the Cappadocian, St.Maximus the Confessor, and St.Gregory Palamas.
