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    STUDIA THEOLOGIA%20ORTHODOXA - Issue no. 1 / 2011  
         
  Article:   THE DIVINE ENERGIES IN THE NEW TESTAMENT.

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  Abstract:  Starting from the well-known distinction made by Palamas between the divine essence and the divine energies, the author stops at the second element of this distinction and analyzes the divine energies from the New Testament biblical text point of view, especially from the standpoint of St. Paul’s epistles. By extracting those Pauline texts in which the word ενεργεια and its cognates appear, Prof. Bradshaw wants to see if and to what extent the understanding of St. Paul regarding these terms is close to that of St. Palamas. In this way, the author hopes to prove – even indirectly – that there is always a link between the biblical theology and the subsequent theology developed by the Church Fathers and approved by the Church, that the Holy Tradition of the Church is nothing else but a development and a thorough explanation of the biblical text.

Keywords: divine energies, New Testament, the Pauline epistles. 

 
         
     
         
         
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