John of Damascus
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Sep 24, 2026
AminAUDIENCE
He spoke with the Aryan monk named Buhaira, or some traditions call him Sergius.
AminAUDIENCE
St. John of Damascus talks about this in his work on heritage.
AminAUDIENCE
Yes, yes.
AminAUDIENCE
Exactly.
JustinHOST
Since, therefore, in Christ there is but one person of the divine and human natures, and one hypostasis, and one suppositum, he is given one adoration and one honor on the part of the person adored.
JustinHOST
And on why the humanity of Christ itself receives that same adoration, Aquinas quotes St. John Damascene approvingly.
JustinHOST
On account of the incarnation of the divine word, we adore the flesh of Christ not for its own sake, but because the word of God is united thereto in person.
JustinHOST
Notice exactly what Rabbi Sherki does with our actual claim.
Jay DyerHOST
As we move into the permeation of the Roman Empire by the Christian church, we see less and less of the kind of wilder sects.
Jay DyerHOST
And we get more and more of these kind of specified sects that focus on disputes about the trinity or disputes about who the person of jesus is and this is around the time as we get up into the fifth sixth seventh century we get the rise of a new cult that takes over a large portion of the middle east and other places and that's islam and islam is a a mix you could say of a lot of different ideas and even according to the oxford handbook of islam Many of the early church fathers who say John Damascus, who wrote in the days of the rise of Islam, they accused it of being a mix of Nestorian forms of so-called Christianity, Aryan forms of Christianity, latent Arab paganism, as well as Jewish traditions, Talmudic traditions, and pseudepigraphic Christian traditions.
Jay DyerHOST
So Islam is this sort of odd mix of all of these things.
Jay DyerHOST
And that's, I think, one reason why it's very confusing to a lot of people.
speaker_4NARRATOR
The saint adds that God refused to some through mercy what he grants to others as a chastisement.
speaker_4NARRATOR
Hence St. Damascene says sometimes, when we do not obtain the graces which we ask, we receive, by not receiving them, because it is better for us not to receive than to receive them.
speaker_4NARRATOR
We often ask poison, which would cause our death.
speaker_4NARRATOR
How many are there who had they died in the sickness or poverty with which they had been afflicted should be saved? but because they recovered their health or because they were raised to wealth and honors they became proud and forgot god and thus have been damned hence st chrysostom exhorts us to ask in our prayers what he knows to be expedient for us we should then always ask from god temporal favors on the condition that they will be useful to the soul but spiritual favors such as the pardon of our sins perseverance in virtue the gift of divine love and resignation to the divine will ought to be asked of god absolutely and with the firm confidence of obtaining them if you then being evil know how to give good gifts to your children how much more will your Father from heaven give the good spirit to them that ask him? Luke 11.
Michael RodríguezGUEST
So I'll give you three examples.
Michael RodríguezGUEST
The first one is St. John Damascene.
Michael RodríguezGUEST
He lived from six hundred and seventy-six to seven hundred and forty-nine.
Michael RodríguezGUEST
St. John Damascene, Doctor of the Church, is the outstanding champion of sacred images.
Michael RodríguezGUEST
He is known as the Doctor of Christian Art.
Michael RodríguezGUEST
He is also famous for his strong devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary.
Michael RodríguezGUEST
Another title of his is Doctor of the Assumption.
Michael RodríguezGUEST
Some of the most beautiful teaching that we have on the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary comes from St. John Damascene.
Francois BeyroutiGUEST
Number one, make use of the great, the fathers of the church.
Francois BeyroutiGUEST
You mentioned that earlier, or the origins, St. John Chrysostom, St. John of Damascus.
Francois BeyroutiGUEST
On our way here, we saw a book on the icons by...
Francois BeyroutiGUEST
St. John of Damascus, and I shared with Deacon Steve, who organized this, very grateful to him, I said, St. John of Damascus summarized the entire controversy of the icons in one verse, and if all Protestants knew this one verse, there would be nobody objecting to iconography or images.
Francois BeyroutiGUEST
He said, very briefly, he said, we do not worship matter, we worship him who became matter for our salvation.
Francois BeyroutiGUEST
There you go.
Dominic LeggeGUEST
But this is one area where Aquinas does seem to explicitly correct Augustine or disagree with Augustine in some measure.
Dominic LeggeGUEST
And it's really under the influence, I think, of John Damascene and Maximus the Confessor, who's standing behind John Damascene.
Dominic LeggeGUEST
So the Greek patristic tradition about the humanity of Christ as an instrument of his divinity.
Dominic LeggeGUEST
so one of the early great authors on this is athanasius yeah um but uh maximus was one who you know it really developed that doctrine further and uh john damascene largely takes i mean in fact i believe he effectively copies whole paragraphs of of maximus yeah um and then aquinas was reading john damascene yeah so uh this idea of the humanity of christ as an instrument of the divinity is very important because it allows aquinas now to understand how having received the fullness of the spirit as man jesus as man is able to pour out the spirit as an instrument of god so it's not that the humanity of christ is itself the cause of the holy spirit or something like that yeah It's of itself not able to have that kind of supernatural cause or that supernatural effect, but it can be raised up to share in the divine power as an instrument of the divinity.
Dominic LeggeGUEST
And it's precisely there that you now have a rich sense of what the humanity of Christ is able to do as being drawn into this divine activity, really.
Matthew BarrettHOST
Wow.
Tobias BayerGUEST
The will was made to submit to the good.
Tobias BayerGUEST
Saint John Damascene defined prayer as the raising of the mind to God.
Tobias BayerGUEST
Tanqueray takes up that definition and adds a purpose.
Tobias BayerGUEST
The soul rises to God to offer him homage and to beg him favors.
David AndersHOST
Yeah, they're our guys, too.
David AndersHOST
I mean, our big number one dude, Thomas Aquinas, I mean, his whole thought is absolutely saturated with the thought of Dionysius the Areopagite and John of Damascus.
David AndersHOST
I mean, the Eastern patrimony deeply enriches and fructifies the Latin tradition.
David AndersHOST
And I think it would go well for the Orthodox to acknowledge that when they talk to Catholics or write about Catholics.
Phil ChenevertNARRATOR
The saint adds that God refuses to some through mercy what he grants to others as a chastisement.
Phil ChenevertNARRATOR
Hence St. Damascene says sometimes, when we do not obtain the graces which we ask, we receive, by not receiving them, because it is better for us not to receive than to receive them.
Phil ChenevertNARRATOR
We often ask poison which would cause our death.
Phil ChenevertNARRATOR
How many are there who had they died in the sickness or poverty with which they had been afflicted should be saved? But because they recovered their health or because they were raised to wealth and honors, they became proud and forgot God, and thus have been damned.
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