Roman Catholic Spirituality and Byzantine Catholic Spirituality

[Miserissima]

Canonical transfers often come up with folks in CAF EC after a first visit to an ECC, though they sometimes wait till after the second visit.

BWAH! That was good!

 

[dancingcrane]

This might help, though is rather simplistic also. Western Latin theology ‘tends’ to emphasize what God ‘is’ (cataphatic theology), while Eastern theology emphasizes what God ‘is not’ (anaphatic theology). Aquinas saw the two as complimentary and corrective of one another. Easterns use images (icons) ideally as a step on the path of going ‘beyond’ images to what cannot be imaged. Examples of Western Latin ‘imageless’ (anaphatic) saints are St. John of the Cross, and the author of ‘The Cloud of Unknowing’.

 

[jwinch2]

This thread has prompted me to look a bit deeper into Benedictine spirituality. Thanks for the interesting discussion…

Peace,