1/ A thoughtful thread here on the importance of going deep and beyond slogans if we use the Nicene tradition to oppose wrong ideas of subordination in the Trinity. Also worth noting that the problem goes beyond the Trinity and Nicaea too: some advocates of EFS also contradict a https://twitter.com/NivLobo/status/1291277169214328832

2/ Chalcedonian Christology (as rightly developed after Chalcedon) when they say that the two wills of the Son must be totally identical in content, locating his recoil from death in Gethsemane in his will as God and thus antithesizing the divine will of the Son with the will

3/ of the Father, and impling at least ditheism. We need to go deep on Nicene AND post-Chalcedonian dyothelite Christology to avoid that error, again without sloganeering. Maximus can help us! I am going to be bold now in anticipating a reply: '"Post-Chalcedonian dyothelite

4/ Christology" - that sounds too complicated, you've lost touch with the people. Get out more. Speak English. Use short words!'. I am making these comments for preachers. If you are contemplating preaching on Gethsemane and you are in a context where you have access to good

5/ theological resources and you don't know what the phrase means, then you shouldn't be preaching on it until you do. And if you go ahead without working on this, you are in danger of preaching what to the church Fathers would have been abject heresy. Even the bread

6/ sellers in the market places of the Roman empire understood this stuff.