Blemmydes' paraeuonomianism

This blog exists as a vehicle for a specific Christology. This, as a means to harmonise but not identify Security with Information more crudely "Church and State". The Chalcedonian Creed is adopted as, despite its flaws, the best-available exponent of The Three Hundred Eighteen; with the Latin filioque as the best interpretation of that. It follows that I am less concerned with the mystical tradition (for the East) nor the Mary veneration (West); although I do not reject them for others. I care about the Sacraments.

That summary done wit', let's revisit Maximus Confessor. He stands in a tradition alongside Sophronius and the bishop Martin, the latter one taking command as an independent Latin Pope and convening to the Lateran his own synod. Maximus is the weak link here, who despite being a near-martyr to Chalcedon, didn't do filioque. For him the Spirit flows from the Father through the Son. Can we save this for orthodoxy?

Meet Nicephorus Blemmydes. I'm unsure if his family name came from the deserts east of the upper Nile - probably not. Anyway a generation after the Latin conquest of Constantinople, this one figured the Greeks could get around "filioque" by asserting that the Spirit flows from the Father through the Son such that the Son be generated through the Spirit. "Epistle to Theodore Laskaris", 10 - I am told.

Basil Lourié thinks Blemmydes had invented his own system of logic: Paraconsistency. In particular, paraconsistent numbers, incomprehensible by the notion of ordered pair. You might think this is all so much geometric logic but - Instead, they imply a known (first described by Emil Post in 1941) but still little studied logical connective ternary exclusive OR. It's real; maybe useful to database programmers, or further downstack the quantum computing field.

For a theory of the state, however: I see this as a sovereign (the Father) organising itself and expressing itself through a hypostatic language (the Spirit) thus creating all things - which includes the Son. This is just Arius or the two Eusebii, isn't it? Small wonder it didn't get anywhere.