"Everywhere, in the public squares, at crossroads, on the streets and lanes, people would stop you and discourse at random about the Trinity. If you asked something of a moneychanger, he would begin discussing the question of the Begotten and the Unbegotten. If you questioned a baker about the price of bread, he would answer that the Father is greater and the Son is subordinate to Him. If you went to take a bath, the bath attendant would tell you that in his opinion the Son simply comes from nothing."
St. Gregory of Nyssa describing the theological excitement surrounding the First Council of Constantinople.
Reminds me of Cork in the early 90s before the Celtic Tiger started. Couldn’t get a pint without the barman going on about the Filioque clause.
ReplyDeleteOf course I remember that. Who could forget the Bishop of Cork having to defend himself with a hurley from a mob chanting "from the Father alone"?
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