The Mystical Tradition of the Eastern Church : : Studies in Patristics, Liturgy, and Practice /

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

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), l...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (260 p.)
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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

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