Homilies on the Christian Life · Lecture 008
The Annunciation of the Theotokos
A lecture by Dimitrios Panagopoulos · Δείτε στα Ελληνικά
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Summary
Dimitrios Panagopoulos presents the Annunciation as the beginning of the whole economy of salvation, using Genesis 3, Psalm 44, Galatians 4:4, Matthew 1, and Luke 3. Nazareth is placed before Jerusalem in the sequence of salvation because without the virginal conception there would be no Crucifixion, Resurrection, or Ascension. The central mystery is God becoming man through a sinless and uncreated conception, with Christ as the ladder by which humanity ascends and the Theotokos as the ladder by which God descends. He cites Gregory Palamas and John Chrysostom on the necessity of the virginal conception and notes liturgical types of the Theotokos in the tabernacle, censer, and prothesis imagery.
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