The Mystical Tradition of the Eastern Church : : Studies in Patristics, Liturgy, and Practice / / ed. by Sergey Trostyanskiy, Jess Gilbert.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2019 English
• MitwirkendeR: Artemi, Eirini,; Damian, Theodore,; Flory, Mark W.,; Fortuin, Robert F.,; Gilbert, Jess,; McCabe, Cameron,; McCarty, V. K.,; Perkins, Anthony,; Springer, Don,; Streza, Ciprian,; Terezis, Christos,; Trostyanskiy, Sergey,; Yanes-Fernandez, Inti,; Zymaris, Philip,
• HerausgeberIn: Gilbert, Jess,; Trostyanskiy, Sergey,
• Place / Publishing House: Piscataway, NJ : : Gorgias Press, , [2019]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (260 p.)

This volume presents the work of contemporary Orthodox thinkers who attempt to integrate the theological and the mystical. Exciting and provocative chapters treat a wide variety of mysticism, including early Church accounts, patristics (including the seemingly ever-popular subject of deification), liturgy, iconography, spiritual practice, and contemporary efforts to find mystical sense in cyber-technologies and post-humanism.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Mysticism and its Historical Manifestations -- I. MYSTICAL THEOLOGY AND CHURCH MOTHERS AND FATHERS -- I.1. The Relation Between the Incomprehensibility of God and the Naming of God in the Theology of Pseudo-Dionysius -- I.2. Toward an Understanding of Maximus the Confessor's Mystical Theology of Deification: The Spiritual Sabbath / Eighth Day Sequence in Two Hundred Chapters on Theology -- I.3. Mystical Theology in the Writings of Gregory of Nyssa and Dionysius Areopagite -- I.4. Analogy in the Mystical Theology of Gregory of Nyssa: Transcending Negation and Affirmation -- I.5. Recapitulative Reversal and the Restoration of Humanity in St. Irenaeus -- I.6. Kindling Divine Fire: The Mystical Sayings of St. Syncletica -- II. LITURGY, SACRAMENTS, AND ICONS -- II.1. The Kingdom of the Holy Trinity and the Movement of a Community in the Sacrificial Spirit of Christ: The importance of Father Dumitru Stăniloae's Mystical and Ascetic Vision of the Holy Liturgy -- II.2. The Sacraments of the Church: Basis of Spirituality, Building Blocks of the Kingdom -- II.3. The Mystery of Representation: Theodore the Studite on Seeing the Invisible -- III. CONTEMPORARY PRACTICE AND APPLICATIONS -- III.1. Understanding My Avatar: Cyberbeing, Bio- Digital Personhood, and Fictional Transcendences from an Orthodox Perspective -- III.2. A Theory of Practice: A Meditation on Practice Itself -- III.3. The Prayer of the Heart as Method of Cognitive Behavioral Psychotherapy -- III.4. Orthopraxis and Theosis: The Role of Ritual in the Training of the Mind -- Indices -- Subject Index -- Index of Names