Paul M. Collins

Partaking in Divine Nature (eBook, PDF)

Deification and Communion

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Produktbeschreibung

With strong application and relevance to contemporary ecclesiological questions, this is an investigation of how understandings of theosis in the Christian Tradition have related to understandings of divine nature in terms of koinonia.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks UK
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Mai 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780567353115
• Artikelnr.: 38225746

Autorenporträt

Revd Dr Paul M. Collins, formerly Reader in Theology at the University of Chichester, Parish Priest on Holy Island, Northumberland, England.

Inhaltsangabe

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