The Mystagogy of St Maximos the Confessor
Talk by Metropolitan Jonah (Paffhausen), part 1

Class #1: Introduction. 
The text for this series is "On the Ecclesiastical Mystagogy", by Jonathan J. Armstrong, SVS Press. 

The first class covered Part II. "Introduction to On the Ecclesiastical Mystagogy", sections: 
(a) The Mystagogical [sacramental] Tradition in the Early Church, 
(b) An Outline of the Ecclesiastical Mystagogy. and 
(c) The Ecclesiology of On the Ecclesiastical Mystagogy. 

Topics discussed include:
1. The relevant terms (mystagogy, logos, and logoi, intelligible, sensible, nous/noetic, rational, theosis, nature, hypostases, recapitulation); 
2. The Church as the image of God. 
3. The true and only basis for unity is in Christ and His Church. It is a fundamental unity even in the midst of diversity (in gender, race, language, personality, national, economic, and social status); 
4. The Holy Trinity.

June 15, 2021
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