Description |
1 online resource |
Series |
Perspectives on Philosophy and Religious Thought |
Contents |
Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Preface / Alexandrescu, Vlad -- Translator's Note / Gabor, Octavian -- The Apophatic Anthropology -- Attempt to an Introduction to an Apophatic Orthodox Anthropology -- Texts from the Antim Monastery -- Translator's Notes |
Summary |
An English translation of André Scrima's 1952 work on Apophatic Anthropology. Pascalian in essence, the approach departs from the Augustinian roots of Western Christian theology and develops a Christian anthropology based on Eastern Orthodoxy. The endeavor of a human being to understand oneself does not lead, as in the case of Pascal, to identification with Jesus Christ's suffering, but further, to an attempt of deification, theosis, in which the main concept is Incarnation. This attempt opens to man the possibility to conceive himself as interior to God. Man becomes therefore the physical and metaphysical bridge between creation and the uncreated, the only creature that bears the image of God |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-245) |
Notes |
In English |
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Apr 2019) |
Subject |
Deification (Christianity)
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Theological anthropology.
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Negative theology.
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RELIGION -- General.
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Deification (Christianity)
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Negative theology
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Theological anthropology
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Gabor, Octavian
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LC no. |
2016021203 |
ISBN |
9781463236854 |
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1463236859 |
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9781463205652 |
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1463205651 |
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