Spencer Payton

musician, aspiring theologian, and yacht rock enthusiast.

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Love Hymn to Origen 1.1.2

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Haven’t been on this app in forever, but. If anyone is still on this hellscape, follow me over on the other site bc I will not be posting here:

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@a_benjamin very Lewis Space Trilogy of you!

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I’m thrilled to see that my return to this app via this tweet has been met with such wonderful discourse.

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the better question is: what about *infant* alien baptism?

[Josiah Hawthorne @JosiahHawthorne]

@StevenG57428175 @stpayton Demons have green ugly hands?

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the better question is: what about *infant* alien baptism?

[Jonathan Fine @jonathanbfine]

Some of you have never made it out of the Phenomenology of Spirit escape room at Hegel Haus, and it shows. https://t.co/8BFLe5Vo3K

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We love you @DAVID_LYNCH

[Jacob Sherman @Shermanicus]

I want creation to fill you with so much admiration that everywhere, wherever you may be, the least plant may bring to you the clear remembrance of the Creator.
— Basil of Caesarea, Hexaemeron IV

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@Cameron_Combs Yep! All 3 of the lectures.

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Christ is eschatologically and so ecclesially what Augustine called the “totus Christus:” he is himself simply *as* himself *and* he is himself as one with his disciples, with the members of his body; and only as he is both is he indeed himself. ~ Robert Jenson

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@Cameron_Combs Yes! So brilliant. I was reading from the first “Christ as Culture” lecture

[Eli (Stop Israel's genocide of the Palestinians) @pretentiouscox]

“Christmas is not an event within history but is rather the invasion of time by eternity.”
——Hans Urs Von Balthasar

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@TheNewMystics so good. 🔥 is the first quote also from the Stromata? trying to track it down.

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@Make_it_Raines George MacDonald nails this with his sermon on “adoption” imo

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The library on campus has been under renovation ever since I started my degree, but it has now officially re-opened! Had to borrow these (first editions!) out of sheer principle.

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The Maximus scholar and translator, Polycarp Sherwood, was a monk here at St. Meinrad (where I’m currently doing my graduate studies).

It’s cool to be studying somewhere with a history of Maximus scholarship—especially here in the middle of nowhere, Southern Indiana!

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read more Bulgakov, friends.

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He thus became one with His humanity, introducing it into His own hypostatic being. And only on this basis can it be said: ‘Christ lives in me.’”

~ Bulgakov, “Bride of the Lamb” pg. 109

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“In general, humanity does not exist abstractly and impersonally. It exists only as mine, yours, ours, theirs. It consists of the totality of all particular human persons. The Lord took His humanity not from impersonal nature but from each of us personally.