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1 online resource (250) |
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Front cover; Half title; Title page; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Prologue; Abbreviations; Part I. Approaching the Trinitarian Monad; One: The Quest for a Personalistic Ontology; 1: Transcending the tragedy; 2: The monarchy of the Father; 3: Drawing implications for the many; Two: Monarchy and Trinity in the Greek and Irish Fathers; 1: The 'middle point'; 2: The unfathomable mode of existence; 3: The semantic value of 'monarchy' in trinitarian theology; i: Aition and the source of unity; ii: Subordination or a wonderful plot; iii: Godhead: the Father's prerogative? |
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Iv: Perichoresis and essential unityThree: Person and Grace; 1: Chasing Ekstasis; 2: Deification and Personhood; Part II. Subjectivity and Catholicity: The Monastic Paradigm; One: The Individual and the Community; 1: The way home; 2: The trinitarian aspect; 3: The image of the body; 4: The monastic model; 5: Different notes: the One and the many; 6: Reaching the unity of the Monad; i: From obedience to discretion; ii: Spiritual paternity; iii: Introversion and Nepsis; iv: Love and sympathy; v: Unpossessiveness; vi: Liturgy versus asceticism?; vii: Triadic and monadic in virtue |
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7: The locus of unity: a Person?Two: Institution and Charisma; 1: Identification and distinction; 2: Essential realities and institutionalism; 3: Charisma in monasticism; 4: Holiness and sacramental efficacy; 5: The vicarius Christi and the people; 6: Meanings of order; 7: Image and mimesis; 8: Amazing grace; 9: Hierarchy and divine energy; 10: Ideals and accidents; Concluding Remarks; Last Prologue; Notes; Bibliography; Back cover |
| Summary |
The One and the Three explores parallels between Byzantine and early Irish monastic traditions, finding in both a markedly trinitarian theology founded on God's contemplation and ascetic experience. Chrysostom Koutloumousianos refutes modern theological theses that affect ecclesiology, and contrasts current schools of theological thought with patristic theology and anthropology, in order to approach the meaning and reality of unity and otherness within the Triadic Monad and the cosmos. He explores such topics as the connection between nature and person, the esoteric dimension of the Self, the |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Trinity.
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RELIGION -- Christian Theology -- History.
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Trinity
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Monarchianismus
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Patristik
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Trinitätslehre
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Monadenlehre
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Vätertheologie
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
0227904176 |
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9780227904176 |
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