Noomahia Lecture 7.mov

Lecture 7. Christian Logos. 1. Noological analysis of Christianity is not dogmatic but based on typology. 2. The main structure of Christianity is heavenly patriarchy and verticality. God is Father and He is in Heaven. He is transcendent from creature so it is Logos of Apollo. Hence Platonism and Aristotelian logic in Joan Damascine and scholastics. 3. In Christology we see Dionysian features: two nature of Christ, death and resurrection, descent into the Hell, the Christ as future God and King. But it is apollonian type of dionysism – free from chtonic motives and figure, purified, patriarchal. 4. In the field of gender there is anelegyny and patriarchy: two branches of sedentary Indo-European society relation between sexes. 5. In theology it is Alexandrine school and Origenes and Cappadocian fathers – Saint Basil the Great, Saint Gregory and so on. The radical apollonian version is monophysite heresy (Coptic, Armenian, Ethiopean). 6. Generally it is regarded as greek influence. The teaching of Logos. Two