2 theological concerns:

The Christological debate and then the status of the spirit

Athanasius unity of the triad
These tropicoi were anti arian to affirm sons consubstantiality with the father
If the spirit is said to do this and this then it must be this, its a functional ontology
They are bad readers of scripture because they dont apply the experience of faith they are too
literalistic and dont read it through the lens of the salvation narrative doing texts without a
context and without the rule of faith
The environment for textual interpretation is the rule of faith and the gospel story from exegesis
and the rule of faith
Error is the role of the spirit in the salvation narrative
Worry is what happen pastorally and practically if you get this wrong
Ellen charry by the renewing of your mind not detached intellectual work thats modernity
isolates theological discourse from pastoral dynamics
Getting tour theology right that doesnt lead to morally right behaviour, otherwise you are not doing
it right
To do theology is to exist in relationship with the triune god
Confession of brokenness in the theological task greg of naz confessional invocational strategy,
wondering silence/contemplative of the mystery, moral and prayerful life was central to the
theological task morally holistic character if all we are doing is talking in a classsroon or
confessing a creed we are not doing theology
Analysis of patristic social ethics in its infancy
Asceticsm is a major factor 3 stges influenced by stoic/Platonism
Trinitarian theology is to take god seriously and to discipline their creatureliness as it meets god and
recogonising your contingency this is fulfilment and also brokenness

Basil
Changed the confession - to with instead of through fo HS
Bauckham identity
What does this one do and who is he? God in action and therefore divinity in action
Basil does not call him god because it does not say so in the text
Self consciously pastoral get the spirit wrong and the church goes wrong
There is a range of delay and immediacy in baptism
Doctrinal and moral catechesis elaboration increases hand in hand, becomes secret, as well
persecution in 3rd cent in Cyprian times well if they apostasisee then maybe we shoukd take
baptism more seriously, what do we do about theinitiation, make it more difficult
Calling creator/redeemer/sanctifier is either tritheism or modalism god, is triune in all his actions
Cappas you cant collapse the
Tertullian against modalism thhe cross killed the father divine suicide, real differentiation in the
economy but where the son is present the son and the spirit are involved go to baptismal
narrative. One god involved n everything
Greg of Nazianzus
What is he sayig about pneumatolgy in particular focus on relationality, which there isnt in basil
what makes the three what they are an onto-relation. Intrinsic to the hypostatic identity is the
reltionality of one to the others idiomata properties, not one has divinity and the others dont,
but each has characteristics that are unique to him unique in an intrinsic relationship
A conception of the oneness of god in which the 3ness is integral the idioms wont be what they are
if there is monarchy there this is why consubstantiality is important
Language complicates this kataphatic precision does not matter but that at the end of the day
language fractures at the end of the day
Fellowship transcends creaturely language not that it is wrong but that it is inadequate
To come into fellowship with the ousia, is to experience god in a mystical way not some substance
behind irreducibly
Progression which is an act of divine condescension its not that god is becoming more triune the
telos of this disclosure is the adoration of the divine ousia the immensity of gods triunity, net
effect is mor worship and sense f the transcendence of god and gods own glory
Kind of progressive revelation- it doesnt stop but not that there is a 4
th
but eschatologically the
divine ousia is endlessly fulfilling in itself in its vastness and plenitude it will sate you forever but in
a dynamic
Argument has been made from function of texts and is now being made from logic
Gregory of nyssa telos of it all is strong
Strong emphasis on the hypostatic individuation thay get accused of tritheism you can never get
father in distiv=nction from son their opponents say it risks pluralism
Nyssa is aware of the dangers of the Platonist analogies there is real 3 foldness in the godhead
they are together constitutive iof the ousia there is no godhead other where the 3 are foiund its
not maths they are not bits of something called goodness nor are they replicatable found
constitutively 3 ways
Perichoresis:
Perichoreo to go around the circumference
John of damas uses this the cappas dont but with ref to Christological relations
Thsy make space for one another dancing is wrong, they interpenetrate without any loss to who
they are endless coequality and endless movement
However they want to say yes but the father is the source or spring to the godhead, how do you
this?
This is just the way scripture requies you to think the father is in himself from no-one which is
individually his
Clerical caste derives the authority from the father in eastern orthodoxy
What do you do with perichoresis can be used in such a way that is unhelpful
Social trinitarianism is projectionism, taking a human ideal and placing it on the trinity
You cant draw direct lines between human relations and divine relations, certainly cant take human
relations and project them onto god
Moltmann is tritheistic
What is trin theology for talking properly about god not legitimising political/creaturely aspiriation
The due order in which we speak, we speak about god then we talk about the world, trin theology is
about the character of god first off then there is awhole world of his creatures, this is to unpack the
gospels
Theology firstly should be about a doctrine of god then other peripheral issues such as
complementarianism
Confessing stuff in turn generates a praxis
Not a moral idealism in the gospel story moralising wants an ideal these saints are sinners
theological presicion is not detachable from molarity or a holy pursuit holiness is something doen
to us that kills us and we fight against it sin is a madness and of Christians the worst as they are
doing it in union with christontological ab
Need to start with god not the periphery and then see if there are points of contact
Theologyin modernity is preoccupied with what you dont know about god like the dark not the
light infidelity rather than confession
Scripture dominates what is happening and a pastoral, practical and ethical thread running through