Visions of God and Ideas on Deification in Patristic Thought

ISBN-13: 9780367884666 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 246 str.

Mark Edwards; Elena Ene D-Vasilescu

Opis

This volume illustrates the complexity and variety of early Christian thought on the subject of the image of God as a theological concept, and the difficulties that arise even in the interpretation of particular authors who gave a cardinal place to the image of God in their expositions of Christian doctrine. The first part illustrates both the p

Spis treści

Introduction

 

Part I. What is the image of God?

1. Martyrdom of Polycarp, Markus Vinzent

2. Growing like God: Some thoughts on Irenaeus of Lyons, Mark Edwards

 

Part II. Image and Eschatology. Deification

3. ‘Love never fails, not even in death’. Gregory of Nyssa on theôsis, Elena Ene D-Vasilescu

4. Deification in the Alexandrian tradition, Mark Edwards

5. Not so alien and unnatural after all: the role of deification in Augustine’s sermons, Stanley P. Rosenberg

6. Union with and likeness to God: Deification according to Dionysius the Areopagite, Filip Ivanovic

7. Like a glowing sword. St Maximus on deification, Torstein Theodor Tollefsen

 

Part III. Image of God and Byzantine/Meta-Byzantine Icon

8. Communion with God and theology of the icon: a study of the Christological iconology of St. John of Damascus, Dimitrios Pallis

9. The vision of God and the deification of man: the visual implications of theôsis, Clemena Antonova

 

Bibliography

Index

O autorze

Mark Edwards is Professor of Early Christian Studies at the University of Oxford, UK.

Elena Ene D- Vasilescu is a Research Fellow at the University of Oxford, UK and teaches in the fields of Patristics, History of the Church, and Byzantine Church Art.