Apophatic Anthropology : : An English Translation / / André Scrima.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Gorgias Press Complete eBook-Package 2016
• VerfasserIn: Scrima, André,
• MitwirkendeR: Alexandrescu, Vlad,; Gabor, Octavian,
• TeilnehmendeR: Gabor, Octavian.
• Place / Publishing House: Piscataway, NJ : : Gorgias Press, , [2016]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Perspectives on Philosophy and Religious Thought
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (259 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Table of Contents --; Preface --; Translator's Note --; The Apophatic Anthropology --; Attempt to an Introduction to an Apophatic Orthodox Anthropology --; Texts from the Antim Monastery --; Translator's Notes
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781463236854; 9783110663020; 9783110716849
• DOI: 10.31826/9781463236854
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: André Scrima.

An English translation of André Scrima's 1952 work on Apophatic Anthropology. Pascalian in essence, the approach departs from the Augustinian roots of Western Christian theology and develops a Christian anthropology based on Eastern Orthodoxy. The endeavor of a human being to understand oneself does not lead, as in the case of Pascal, to identification with Jesus Christ's suffering, but further, to an attempt of deification, theosis, in which the main concept is Incarnation. This attempt opens to man the possibility to conceive himself as interior to God. Man becomes therefore the physical and metaphysical bridge between creation and the uncreated, the only creature that bears the image of God.