Partaking in Divine Nature
Deification and Communion
1st Edition
Published on 27. May 2010
240 pages
978-0-567-35311-5 (ISBN)
Description
An investigation of how understandings of theosis in the Christian Tradition have related to understandings of divine nature in terms of koinonia.
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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
ISBN-13
978-0-567-35311-5 (9780567353115)
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12/2011
T.& T.Clark Ltd
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Person
Revd Dr Paul M. Collins, formerly Reader in Theology at the University of Chichester, Parish Priest on Holy Island, Northumberland, England.
Content
Introduction to the thesis of the book and its contents
Deification in pre-Christian traditions
including Greek and Indian traditions; assessment of the influence of these upon Christian understandings of incarnation and salvation.
Deification in Eastern Orthodox Tradition
including discussion of salvation in terms of recapitulation; understandings of 'the Cross'; an examination of the development of theosis in patristic and medieval authors: e.g. Origen, Athanasius, the Cappadocian fathers, Ps-Dionysius, Maximus the Confessor, Symeon the Theologian, Gregory Palamas; and modern authors such as Bulgakov and Staniloae. This will also include and examination of how divine nature is understood in relation to theosis.
Deification in Western Traditions
including Thomas Aquinas, Martin Luther, the Caroline Divines and the Wesleys; as well as recent authors both Catholic and Protestant e.g. Karl Rahner, Catherine Mowry LaCugna, Lars Thunberg, Norman Russell; as well as an assessment of the place of 'deification' alongside other models and understandings of salvation in the West.
Deification and Relationality: imago trinitatis
discussion of divine nature understood in terms of koinonia i.e. in terms of a hermeneutic of relationality; discussion of this hermeneutic in the works of Zizioulas, Barth, Torrance, Gunton, Hardy, Schwöbel; discussion of Rahner's place in & contribution to this debate; discussion of dialectical understandings of difference and repetition (inc. Deleuze) and how these concepts inform a relational understanding of theosis.
Deification: Transformation and Community
[a] discussion of the implications and applications of these findings in relation to Christian community (Church) and Christian life (discipleship). [b] theosis and the body 'garments of skin': asceticism, materiality and sexuality; [c] theosis and the Virtues: imitation of Christ; participating in the sacraments; [d] Christological focus of transformation: the Hypostatic Union and the Transfiguration: application for the Church? Church community as the locus of formation for partaking in the relationality of the divine: discipleship and deification.
Conclusion / Summary of findings
Deification in pre-Christian traditions
including Greek and Indian traditions; assessment of the influence of these upon Christian understandings of incarnation and salvation.
Deification in Eastern Orthodox Tradition
including discussion of salvation in terms of recapitulation; understandings of 'the Cross'; an examination of the development of theosis in patristic and medieval authors: e.g. Origen, Athanasius, the Cappadocian fathers, Ps-Dionysius, Maximus the Confessor, Symeon the Theologian, Gregory Palamas; and modern authors such as Bulgakov and Staniloae. This will also include and examination of how divine nature is understood in relation to theosis.
Deification in Western Traditions
including Thomas Aquinas, Martin Luther, the Caroline Divines and the Wesleys; as well as recent authors both Catholic and Protestant e.g. Karl Rahner, Catherine Mowry LaCugna, Lars Thunberg, Norman Russell; as well as an assessment of the place of 'deification' alongside other models and understandings of salvation in the West.
Deification and Relationality: imago trinitatis
discussion of divine nature understood in terms of koinonia i.e. in terms of a hermeneutic of relationality; discussion of this hermeneutic in the works of Zizioulas, Barth, Torrance, Gunton, Hardy, Schwöbel; discussion of Rahner's place in & contribution to this debate; discussion of dialectical understandings of difference and repetition (inc. Deleuze) and how these concepts inform a relational understanding of theosis.
Deification: Transformation and Community
[a] discussion of the implications and applications of these findings in relation to Christian community (Church) and Christian life (discipleship). [b] theosis and the body 'garments of skin': asceticism, materiality and sexuality; [c] theosis and the Virtues: imitation of Christ; participating in the sacraments; [d] Christological focus of transformation: the Hypostatic Union and the Transfiguration: application for the Church? Church community as the locus of formation for partaking in the relationality of the divine: discipleship and deification.
Conclusion / Summary of findings
