energeia

The word energeia is not here employed in the Aristotelean sense (actus, as opposed to potentia, dynamis), for this would be practically identical with esse (existentia), and it is an open question among Catholic theologians whether there is one esse in Christ or two.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913

So praxis is defined as energeia logike in the following chapter.

NPNF2-09. Hilary of Poitiers, John of Damascus 1898

Or, if you prefer Greek, its dynamis depends on God's energeia to actually exist.

Again, there is absolutely no teleology involved 2007

This connects the matter/form distinction to another key Aristotelian distinction, that between potentiality (dunamis) and actuality (entelecheia or energeia).

Aristotle's Metaphysics Cohen, S. Marc 2008

The difficulty with that is not so much with what it says as with what it doesn't say: it does not afford clear grounds for presenting the Spirit as hypostasis, not merely energeia.

Archive 2007-02-01 Mike L 2007

The difficulty with that is not so much with what it says as with what it doesn't say: it does not afford clear grounds for presenting the Spirit as hypostasis, not merely energeia.

The filioque issue narrowed Mike L 2007

If philosophy used to think in terms of idea, as energeia, as actualitas, does it now think in terms of appropriation?

enowning enowning 2007

So patterned, the divine energeia are both the living of divine life ad intra and the life God bestows ad extra on angels and humanity, by creating them to become "partakers of the divine nature" cf.

Archive 2007-11-01 Mike L 2007

If philosophy used to think in terms of idea, as energeia, as actualitas, does it now think in terms of appropriation?

Archive 2007-05-01 enowning 2007

So patterned, the divine energeia are both the living of divine life ad intra and the life God bestows ad extra on angels and humanity, by creating them to become "partakers of the divine nature" cf.

We're all getting married: the new theological synthesis Mike L 2007