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1 online resource (xi, 239 pages) |
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Changing paradigms in historical and systematic theology |
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Changing paradigms in historical and systematic theology.
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| Contents |
Cover -- Human Perfection in Byzantine Theology: Attaining the Fullness of Christ -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Chapter 1: Human perfection in Orthodox theological anthropology: Retrieving the Christological imperative -- 1. Method -- A defence of 'neo-patristic synthesis' -- Approaching Theological Anthropology: Christ as Cornerstone -- 2. The roots and contours of modern Orthodox theological anthropology -- Orthodox theology of the person/hypostasis -- Personalism and Orthodox Theology -- Forging the rudiments of an Orthodox theological personalism |
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John Zizioulas and the debate over hypostasis -- Deification as a Christocentric doctrine -- The God-man versus Godmanhood: delineating Orthodox approaches to deification -- Chapter 2: Perpetual progress or eternal rest?: Contemplating the eschaton in St Maximus the Confessor -- 1. Perpetual progress and its discontents -- Epektasis as normative -- Problems with epektasis -- Perpetual progress in early Byzantine theology: the evidence -- 2. The eschatology of Maximus the Confessor -- Some preliminaries -- Christocentric deification and the suspicion of change -- The blessed Sabbath |
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Born(e) into the age to come -- From ever-moving rest to undivided union -- Inheritors of his holy name -- The stature of the fullness in the mystery of love -- Chapter 3: Perfection before our eyes: St Theodore the Studite on the humanity of Christ -- Theodore the Studite -- 1. The one human nature of Christ, of Mary, and of us -- Introduction -- Christ's human nature -- The humanity of Mary -- 2. From the humanity of Christ to the humanity of the saints -- Our corrupted nature raised above the heavens -- The healing of my nature -- The earthiness of the holy: seeing perfection in the coenobium |
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Chapter 4: I am called by two names, human and divine: Dogma and deification in St Symeon the New Theologian -- Symeon the New Theologian -- 1. Mediocrity routed -- The threat of a mediocre ideal -- Mediocrity as heresy -- The meaning of experience -- 2. Christocentric perfection -- Unto angels hath he not put in subjection the world to come' (Heb. 2:5) -- The meeting of God and the image of God -- Perfect man in a Chalecdonian key -- Mary, Mother of God and of all the saints -- Symeon the 'individualist'? -- Conclusion |
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Chapter 5: The energy of deification and the person of Jesus Christ in St Gregory Palamas -- 1. The Hesychast Controversy and the anti-Palamite challenge to divine energies -- The Hesychast Controversy -- The anti-Palamite challenge to deification by divine energies -- 2. Gregory Palamas on epistemology and deification in Christ -- Knowledge of the world and knowledge of God in Palamas: finding the impetus for the theology of divine energy -- The human ideal in Palamas: deification through the radiance of the body of Christ -- Conclusion: Christ as 'Father' -- Conclusion |
| Summary |
This work studies the approach to the question of human perfection in a number of seminal Byzantine theological figures (from 7th-14th centuries), in conversation with modern Orthodox Christian thought. The Byzantine authors examined include Maximus the Confessor, Theodore the Studite, Symeon the New Theologian, and Gregory Palamas |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 14, 2020) |
| Subject |
Perfection -- Religious aspects -- Orthodox Eastern Church -- History of doctrines
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780192583994 |
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0192583999 |
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9780192583987 |
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0192583980 |
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9780191880568 |
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0191880566 |
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