Mystical Doctrines of Deification: Case Studies in the Christian Tradition

ISBN-13: 9780815393245 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 192 str.

John Arblaster; Rob Faesen

Opis

The collection brings together a number of capita selecta that focus on the development of theosis through the ages until the Early Modern Period.

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Introduction, John Arblaster and Rob Faesen  1 Θεοποιεῖσθαι and δοξάζεσθαι: Deification and glorification in Origen’s exegesis of John 13:31-32, Vito Limone  2 "You Can Become All Flame": Deification in Early Egyptian Monasticism, Daniel Lemeni  3 Down by The Lover’s Well: Gregory of Nyssa and Annie Dillard on Divinization, Martin Laird, O.S.A.  4 Plato’s Contribution to Augustine’s Theory of Theosis, Victor Yudin  5 The Reception of the Greek Patristic Doctrine of Deification in the Medieval West: The Case of John Scottus Eriugena, Ernesto Sergio Mainoldi  6 The Dream of the Rood: A Neglected Contemplative Text, Tim Flight  7 Ubi caro mea glorificatur, gloriosum me esse cognosco: Deification in John of Fécamp (c. 990-1078), Rob Faesen, S.J.  8 The Abyss of Man, The Abyss of Love, Patrick Cooper 9 "Becoming a cross to thyself": Loving humility in The Book of Privy Counselling and Thomas Nagel’s "impersonal standpoint", Maria Exall  10 The Monk of Farne: A Forgotten Medieval English Mystic, Louise Nelstrop  11 Psychology, Theosis and the Soul: St. Teresa of Avila, St. Augustine and Plotinus on the Western Picture of Theosis, Peter Tyler  12 Hans Urs von Balthasar’s Indifference to Divinization, Jonathan Ciraulo