A history of God, Ch4, Trinity the Christian God

A history of God, Ch4, Trinity the Christian God
Theological passion - Egypt, Syria and Asia minor
Arius of alexandria- question - Jesus Christ God ?
Alexander, bishop - opposed idea
Athanasius, assistant Constantine, emperor
Nicaea, summoned both party
Platonist weakened, god created world from nothing, world is imperfect and fragile, no emanation, god and man separated
Exception, Jesus - on which side?
God created wisdom/word/Logos beginning
Through him created rest
St john - Jesus was Logos
Arius, Christ saved humanity, set trail for mankind, father is a remote god
Athanasius, logos given flesh to save mankind, father and logos of same nature
20 may 325, Nicaea
Athanasius view became official
Both continued teach their view 60 years
Homoousion - made of the same stuff - Athanasius notion on Father and Son
Marcillus, 339, loyal to Athanasius, homoiousion - similar nature
Logos was a passing phase - emerged from god -> incarnate -> melt back after redemption
Life of Antony - imitate Christ - from Athanasius
Cappadocia, turkey, 3 theologians
Basil, Gregory Nyssa and Gregory Nazianzus
Dogma and Kerygma
Kerygma - public teachings
Dogma - deeper meaning, esoteric tradition from apostles
Contemplation(theoria) to attain dogma, silence more than speech - apophatic
God single essence and 3 expression - hypostasus
Trinity not be taken literally but by contemplation
Augustine, Western trinity, psychological and highly personal
Trinity in mind - memory, understanding and will correspond to knowledge, self knowledge and love
Trinity in mind, encounter not god but traces or Presence of god
Trinity in faith, holding truth, contemplating and delighting
Original sin, eternal sin, highly misogynistic
Appolollinarius, Nestorius and Eutyches - heretics, posed difficult question, divinity vs humanity of Christ etc.
Cyril of Alexandria, stick to Athanasius teachings
Justinian, emperor, 529, closed school of philosophy in Athens
Proclus last master from school
Denys, heir of Cappodians
Maximus confessor, human has potential become divine
Anselm, western minister, Jesus came for atonement else God would have thwarted human race, harsh god
Islam adopted more semitic notion of God