A blast from the past!

I have just retrieved from you-tube a series of four short talks, entitled The Trinity Today: God’s Mystery Unveiled For Us, recorded in Fredericton, New Brunswick, in 2004, by the Anglican Prayerbook Society. Though Anglican at the time (I became Orthodox about 5 years later), I think all creedal Christians, including Orthodox, will find these congenial. The only thing that I would now change is the metaphor of “dance,” which is commonly associated with the Holy Trinity’s perichoretic nature, but which is an etymological mistake of which I became aware after this production. περιχώρησις, with an Omega, means “making room for” and “indwelling,” not “dancing together.” The term for dancing would be spelled with an Omicron (the short O), and is used in a very few fathers to express the movement of the cherubim, but NOT the inter-relations of the Holy Trinity. Nevertheless, I pray that these short videos may be helpful for some of you, my friends. I can’t believe this was 20 years ago, just after I had moved to Pittsburgh. You can find these videos on my “Speaking Engagements” page: scroll down to the second-to-last entry.