Faith, Reason, and Theosis /

Faith, Reason, and Theosis / / ed. by Aristotle Papanikolaou, Aristotle Papanikolaou, Ashley M. Purpura, George E. Demacopoulos.

Theosis shapes contemporary Orthodox theology in two ways, positively and negatively. In the positive sense, contemporary Orthodox theologians made theosis the thread that bound together the various aspects of theology in a coherent whole, but also their interpretation of patristic texts, which expe...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2023 English
MitwirkendeR:
Abraham, William J.,
Bouteneff, Peter C.,
Chau, Carolyn,
Davis, Robert Glenn,
Davis, Stephen J.,
Hart, David Bentley,
Kariatlis, Philip,
Porter, Jean,
Prevot, Andrew,
Purpura, Ashley M.,
Stjerna, Kirsi,
Watkins, Michele,
Williams, Rowan,
HerausgeberIn:
Demacopoulos, George E.,
Papanikolaou, Aristotle,
Purpura, Ashley M.,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2023]
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Year of Publication:2023
Language:English
Series:Orthodox Christianity and Contemporary Thought
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Physical Description:1 online resource (336 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction: Faith, Reason, and Theosis
  • Part I: Theotic Existence
  • Waking the Gods: Theosis as Reason’s Natural End
  • Does Aquinas Have the Orthodox Concept of Theosis?
  • Deification as Christification and Human Becoming
  • Theosis as Kenosis: The Paradox of Holy Intimacy in the Theology of Hans Urs von Balthasar
  • Martin Luther on Faith and Union with God: Speculations on Theosis
  • Differentiation as Disfigurement: A Womanist Polemic against the Co-optation of the Divine Essence
  • Part II: Theotic Knowing
  • Revelation, Reason, and Holiness: A Wesleyan Perspective
  • The Ambiguous Meanings of Theosis in Modern and Postmodern Discourse
  • Speculation and Theosis in Vladimir Lossky and Meister Eckhart
  • Knowing through Unknowing: The Qualified Necessity of Human Reason in Dionysius
  • Knowing in Theosis: A Byzantine Mystical Theological Approach
  • Deification in Evagrius Ponticus and the Transmission of the Kephalaia Gnostika in Syriac and Arabic
  • The Embodied Logos: Reason, Knowledge, and Relation
  • Acknowledgments
  • List of Contributors
  • Index

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