Visions of God and Ideas on Deification in Patristic Thought
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Taylor and Francis
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Florence
Date:
2016
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Englisch
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Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Introduction -- What is the image of God? -- Image and eschatology: Deification -- The Image of God and Byzantine/Meta-Byzantine Icon -- Notes -- Part I What is the Image of God? -- 1 Polycarp's Martyrdom According to the Gospel -- Notes -- 2 Growing Like God: Some Thoughts on Irenaeus of Lyons -- Pauline recapitulation -- Pauline theology before Irenaeus -- Irenaeus -- Christ and recapitulation -- Notes -- Part II Image and Eschatology: Deification
3 "Love Never Fails": Gregory of Nyssa on Theôsis -- The tradition in which Gregory of Nyssa's thought on deification originates -- Homilies on the Song of Songs18 on love and theôsis -- Love as desire -- Àkolouthia -- Deification in the treatise On the Soul and the Resurrection -- iii. 1. Love as desire -- Àkolouthia by participation -- The soul and deification. Ascesis and grace -- Ascesis and theôsis -- Grace, love, and theôsis -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 4 Deification in the Alexandrian Tradition -- The early tradition -- One nature enfleshed -- Ecumenical reflections -- Notes
5 Not So Alien and Unnatural After All: The Role of Deification in Augustine's Sermons -- Contesting the standard model: Deification as essentially alien to Augustine and the Latin West -- Misreading Augustine: Discounting sermons and the oral context -- Playing the whole board: Sermons in context -- Pedagogy and preaching -- Forming matters: The cosmological foundation to an idea -- Deforming and reforming matters: Privatio boni and the healing of the imago dei -- Formative teaching: Corruption and deification in sermons -- Conforming spirituality: Deification and participation -- Notes
6 Union with and Likeness to God: Deification According to Dionysius the Areopagite -- Philosophical background -- Ecclesiology -- Hierarchy and order -- Sacraments -- Epistemology -- Deification and its visual aspect -- Notes -- 7 Like a Glowing Sword: St Maximus on Deification -- Notes -- 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* -- A 'traditional' monist Christian background and some of its complexities -- Theological dimensions of icon-matter and salvation
Conclusion -- Notes -- 9 The Vision of God and the Deification of Man: The Visual Implications of Theo=sis -- A vision beyond vision: On "the spiritual eyes of light" -- The vision of God's "eye" and the space in the icon -- Conclusion and implications -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
3 "Love Never Fails": Gregory of Nyssa on Theôsis -- The tradition in which Gregory of Nyssa's thought on deification originates -- Homilies on the Song of Songs18 on love and theôsis -- Love as desire -- Àkolouthia -- Deification in the treatise On the Soul and the Resurrection -- iii. 1. Love as desire -- Àkolouthia by participation -- The soul and deification. Ascesis and grace -- Ascesis and theôsis -- Grace, love, and theôsis -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 4 Deification in the Alexandrian Tradition -- The early tradition -- One nature enfleshed -- Ecumenical reflections -- Notes
5 Not So Alien and Unnatural After All: The Role of Deification in Augustine's Sermons -- Contesting the standard model: Deification as essentially alien to Augustine and the Latin West -- Misreading Augustine: Discounting sermons and the oral context -- Playing the whole board: Sermons in context -- Pedagogy and preaching -- Forming matters: The cosmological foundation to an idea -- Deforming and reforming matters: Privatio boni and the healing of the imago dei -- Formative teaching: Corruption and deification in sermons -- Conforming spirituality: Deification and participation -- Notes
6 Union with and Likeness to God: Deification According to Dionysius the Areopagite -- Philosophical background -- Ecclesiology -- Hierarchy and order -- Sacraments -- Epistemology -- Deification and its visual aspect -- Notes -- 7 Like a Glowing Sword: St Maximus on Deification -- Notes -- 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* -- A 'traditional' monist Christian background and some of its complexities -- Theological dimensions of icon-matter and salvation
Conclusion -- Notes -- 9 The Vision of God and the Deification of Man: The Visual Implications of Theo=sis -- A vision beyond vision: On "the spiritual eyes of light" -- The vision of God's "eye" and the space in the icon -- Conclusion and implications -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
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