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Both God’s Essence and Energies are uncreated
- Now, it’s important to stress here that both God’s Essence and Energies are uncreated. That is, they are distinct ways of referring to God Himself. God is His Essence, and God is His Energies. And both Essence and Energies are common to the Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
blogs.ancientfaith.com/asd/2016/03/28/god-part-4-8-god-essence-energies/
According to Fr. John Romanides, Palamas considers the distinction between God's essence and his energies to be a "real distinction", as distinguished from the Thomistic "virtual distinction" and the Scotist "formal distinction".
Mar 15, 2022 · Both essence and energies are fully God. Therefore, when interacting with God’s energies, we interact with the uncreated God Himself, while His essence still remains unknowable and unreachable. Essence vs. Energies: An example.
The important points being made are that while God is unknowable in His essence, He can be known (i.e. experienced) in His energies, and such experience changes neither who or what God is nor who or what the one experiencing God is.
Mar 28, 2016 · Now, it’s important to stress here that both God’s Essence and Energies are uncreated. That is, they are distinct ways of referring to God Himself. God is His Essence, and God is His Energies. And both Essence and Energies are common to the Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
May 31, 2024 · In Eastern Orthodox theology, the distinction between God's essence (ousia) and His energies (energeia) is fundamental. The essence of God refers to His inner, unapproachable nature, which remains incomprehensible and inaccessible to created beings.
- William Albrecht
The main theological function of the differentiation between God’s essence and energy is to conceive of God’s real presence in creation while preserving his transcendence. Although Orthodox authors continued to write about the doctrine of the divine energies after the fall of Constantinople in 1453, it lost its central place in Orthodox ...
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God is not limited to His essence, but exists eternally in essence and energy. (His existence in energy is not dependent on His act of creation or work within creation.)
