"more honorable than the cherubim, and more glorious beyond compare than the seraphim..."https://twitter.com/DrJoshMadden/status/1047173448202702848 …
I'm not going argue further on this point, but you're missing some important source material here. Seeing the face of God is one thing, but participating in his nature is another, which it's plain is greater. As for the naming of angels, they weren't placed under our dominion.
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another point to consider is that while in this life angels are not under our dominion, the apostle says, "do you not know that we shall judge even angels?" If Angels have dominion over us in some fixed way as you imply, what sort of injustice would this be?
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Angels & humans both participate in the divine nature by grace. How that happens is of course different, since we're different kinds of creatures. According to nature, angels are a higher kind of creature than humans; by grace, human beings can be elevated above them (i.e. Mary)
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I think you're assuming that Mary's elevation, rather than being a manifestation of the full capacity of man, is some kind of super-added grace, which as I understand it, we Orthodox do not hold to. The rest of the disagreements (I would say, mistakes) flow from here.
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Well I'm a Catholic theologian, and so no, I would not hold to one of the various Orthodox theological systems. And quite frankly, this particular teaching is explicit as far back Dionysius' "Celestial Hierarchy"
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First of all, y'all call him "pseudo-Dionysius" so I'd question the degree to which you view his system as the final answer on the nature of the celestial hierarchy.
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It's a TKO
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