1. Through the incarnation, the hypostasis of the Divine Logos assumed human nature.
— So the incarnate Logos is not only God by nature, but also man by nature.
2. Through the incarnation, the divine nature and the human nature are united without confusion.
— So the divine nature and human nature are not fused into some new hybrid “synthetic nature.”
3. Through the incarnation, the divine nature and the human nature are united without change.
— So the divine nature does not change into something it wasn't before.
— And the human nature does not change into something it wasn't before.
4. Through the incarnation, the divine nature and the human nature are united in the one hypostasis of the divine Logos.
— So, in the incarnate Logos, the hypostasis of the divine nature is one and the same as the hypostasis of the human nature.
5. The incarnation of the divine Logos did not create a new hypostasis.
— The hypostasis of the Logos is pre-eternal and did not begin to exist at the incarnation.
— No new hypostasis began to exist with the incarnation.
6. Through the incarnation, the hypostasis of the divine Logos became composite.
— Before the incarnation, the hypostasis of the Logos was simple, since it was in only one nature.
— After the incarnation, the hypostasis of the Logos is composite, since it is in two natures.
7. Through the incarnation, the hypostasis of the divine Logos became a divine-human hypostasis.
—The hypostasis takes the name of the nature.
—By nature, the incarnate Logos is both divine and human.
—So the hypostasis of the incarnate Logos is a divine-human hypostasis.
8. Through the incarnation, the hypostasis of the divine Logos became one of the hypostases of humanity.
— The hypostasis takes the name of the nature.
— The incarnate Logos is human by nature.
— So the one hypostasis of the incarnate Logos is one of the hypostases of humanity
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—Yes, ROCOR is in communion with the Moscow Patriarchate.
—No, ROCOR is not a part of the Moscow Patriarchate.
—And no (with only one obscure exception) ROCOR is not in any sense bound by the decisions of the Moscow Patriarchate.
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1. With the 2007 Act of Canonical Communion, ROCOR entered into communion with the Moscow Patriarchate.
This is obvious from the title of the Act:
2. However, whilst ROCOR entered into communion with the MP, ROCOR remained SELF-GOVERNING. (I.e. it is not governed by Moscow, and hence is not a part of the MP.) This is made clear in Article 1 of the Act:
Since @SifiReturned is determined to obfuscate, let's look more carefully at Patriarch Bartholomew's claim that, in the Orthodox Church, the Greek race is superior to Slavs.
First of all Patriarch Bartholomew's words are very clear.
Den antechontai i adelfoi mas i Slavi, to provadisma to opion echei to Ikumeniko Patriarcheio kai kata synepeian to yenos mas, mesa stin pankosmia Orthodoxia
Hear his words; there's no mistake in the transcription:
Secondly, the grammar and meaning of his words are equally clear, and present no difficulties.
Do you agree with Patriarch Bartholomew's declaration that, within the Orthodox Church, Slavs are racially inferior to Greeks?
Patriarch Bartholomew's comments were widely reported in the Greek media, but without any objection to his racial inferiorization of Slavs.
Is it really possible to belong to a Church whose leading hierarch openly proclaims his own racial superiority over other ethnic groups, and whose racist claims are accepted unchallenged within that Church?
1. Recently, @MilitantThomist has been arguing that, in Contra Eunomium 3.1, St Basil the Great states the Son to be a cause of the Holy Spirit—& hence to affirm a filioquist triadology.
This argument has been effective against Dyerites, who have struggled to respond to it.
2. However, as MT's claim not only attacks Dyerism, but also poses a challenge to genuine Orthodoxy. So it seems worth offering a response to MT's claim.
1. In fact, the basic meaning of λόγος is not to do with speech at all. Rather, most basically and originally, a λόγος is a "gathering" or "collection".
(Indeed, the very element "...lect..." in "collection" is etymologically cognate to λόγος.)
Cf. λέγειν in Homer, Il. 23.239:
In this basic sense, a λόγος has a twofold aspect: it is both an assembly of things and a laying them out, so that they are both united and distinguished.
(Cf. how a coin collection is not just a unity of coins, but also a unity which displays the coins in their differences.)