Title Faith, Reason, and Theosis / Aristotle Papanikolaou and George E. Demacopoulos, editors

Edition First edition Published New York : Fordham University Press, [2023] ©[2023]

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Description 1 online resource Series Orthodox Christianity and contemporary thought Book collections on Project MUSE Contents Introduction: Faith, Reason, and Theosis / Aristotle Papanikolaou and George E. Demacopoulos -- Part I: Theotic Existence -- Waking the Gods: Theosis as Reason's Natural End / David Bentley Hart -- Does Aquinas Have the Orthodox Concept of Theosis? / Jean Porter -- Deification as Christification and Human Becoming / Philip Kariatlis -- Theosis as Kenosis: The Paradox of Holy Intimacy in the Theology of Hans Urs von Balthasar / Carolyn Chau -- Martin Luther on Faith and Union with God: Speculations on Theosis / Kirsi Stjerna Differentiation as Disfigurement: A Womanist Polemic against the Co-optation of the Divine Essence / Michele E. Watkins -- Part II: Theotic Knowing -- Revelation, Reason, and Holiness: A Wesleyan Perspective / William J. Abraham -- The Ambiguous Meanings of Theosis in Modern and Postmodern Discourse / Andrew Prevot -- Speculation and Theosis in Vladimir Lossky and Meister Eckhart / Robert Glenn Davis -- Knowing Through Unknowing: The Qualified Necessity of Human Reason in Dionysius / Peter Bouteneff -- Knowing in Theosis: A Byzantine Mystical Theological Approach / Ashley Purpura Deification in Evagrius Ponticus and the Transmission of the Kephalaia Gnostika in Syriac and Arabic / Stephen J. Davis -- The Embodied Logos: Reason, Knowledge, and Relation / Rowan Williams -- Acknowledgments -- List of Contributors -- Index Summary "Theosis shapes contemporary Orthodox theology in two ways: positively and negatively. In the positive sense, contemporary Orthodox theologians made theosis the thread that bound together the various aspects of theology in a coherent whole and also interpreted patristic texts, which experienced a renaissance in the twentieth century, even in Orthodox theology. In the negative sense, contemporary theologians used theosis as a triumphalistic club to beat down Catholic and Protestant Christians, claiming that they rejected theosis in favor of either a rationalistic or fideistic approach to Christian life. The essays collected in this volume move beyond this East-West divide by examining the rela­tion between faith, reason, and theosis from Orthodox, Catholic, and Protestant perspectives. A variety of themes are addressed, such as the nature-grace debate and the relation of philosophy to theology, through engagement with such diverse thinkers as Thomas Aquinas, John Wes­ley, Meister Eckhart, Dionysius the Areopagite, Symeon the New Theologian, Panayiotis Nellas, Vladimir Lossky, Martin Luther, Martin Heidegger, Sergius Bulgakov, John of the Cross, Delores Williams, Evagrius of Pontus, and Hans Urs von Balthasar. The essays in this book are situated within a current thinking on theosis that consists of a common, albeit minimalist, affirmation amidst the flow of differences. The authors in this volume contribute to the historical theological task of complicating the contemporary Orthodox narrative, but they also continue the "theologi­cal achievement" of thinking about theosis so that all Christian traditions may be challenged to stretch and shift their understanding of theosis even amidst an ecumenical celebration of the gift of participation in the life of God." --Provided by publisher Notes Description based on print version record Subject Orthodox Eastern Church -- Doctrines SUBJECT Orthodox Eastern Church fast Subject Philosophy and religion. Faith and reason. PHILOSOPHY / Religious. RELIGION / Christianity / Orthodox Theology Faith and reason -- Christianity Deification (Christianity) Form Electronic book Author Demacopoulos, George E., editor Papanikolaou, Aristotle, editor Project Muse. distributor. LC no. 2023023712 ISBN 9781531503048 1531503047

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