Deified Person

Deified Person
Author: Nicholas Bamford
Publisher: University Press of America
Total Pages: 177
Release: 2011-12-16
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0761857281

Deified Person: A Study of Deification in Relation to Person and Christian Becoming focuses on a theological exploration of “person” through the notion of deification and is placed within a Christian Orthodox–Byzantine context. The book offers new interpretations of person in relation to Christian becoming while at the same time exploring some of the difficult avenues of Christian theological developments. Nicholas Bamford encourages theological inquiry, and the book will appeal to those who wish to challenge ideas and push the boundaries forward.

Deified Vision: Towards an Anagogical Catholicism

Deified Vision: Towards an Anagogical Catholicism
Author: Philip Krill
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 524
Release: 2017-09-29
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1483475328

DEIFIED VISION: TOWARDS AN ANAGOGICAL CATHOLICISM is an attempt at activating an "anagogical imagination." It requires of us that we pray for a share in God's own contemplation of the world; that we allow our imaginations to get "lifted up" into His own; that we desire to receive, through the illumination of His Holy Spirit, a participation in His own love and desire for all He has created. One author has called this process 'acquiring an "epistemic participation" in the Mind of Christ.'

Being Deified

Being Deified
Author: David Russell Mosley
Publisher: Fortress Press
Total Pages: 295
Release: 2016-12-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1506410812

Being Deified examines the importance of deification to Christian theology and the place of human creativity in deification. Deification is an explanatory force for the major categories of Christian theology: creation, fall, incarnation, theological anthropology, as well as the sacraments. Deification explains, in part, the why of creation and the what of humanity: God created in order to deify, humanity is created to be deified; the what of the Fall: the desire for divinity outside of God’s gifts; one of the purposes for the Incarnation: to deify; and what end the sacraments aid: deification. Essential to deification is human creativity for humans are created in the image of God, the Creator. In order to explore this dimension of deification, this essay focuses on works of poetry and fantasy, in many ways the pinnacle of human creativity since both genres cause the making strange of things familiar (language and creation itself) in part to make them better known, particularly as creations of the Creator.

The Oxford Handbook of Deification

The Oxford Handbook of Deification
Author: Aquinas Chair in Theology and Philosophy Paul L Gavrilyuk
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 753
Release: 2024-09-06
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0198865171

This handbook offers a comprehensive and varied study of deification within Christian theology. Forty-six leading experts in the field examine points of convergence and difference on the constitutive elements of deification across different writers, thinkers, and traditions.

The Doctrine of Deification in the Greek Patristic Tradition

The Doctrine of Deification in the Greek Patristic Tradition
Author: Norman Russell
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Total Pages: 432
Release: 2005-01-21
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0191532711

Deification in the Greek patristic tradition was the fulfilment of the destiny for which humanity was created - not merely salvation from sin but entry into the fullness of the divine life of the Trinity. This book, the first on the subject for over sixty years, traces the history of deification from its birth as a second-century metaphor with biblical roots to its maturity as a doctrine central to the spiritual life of the Byzantine Church. Drawing attention to the richness and diversity of the patristic approaches from Irenaeus to Maximus the Confessor, Norman Russell offers a full discussion of the background and context of the doctrine, at the same time highlighting its distinctively Christian character.

Finding All Things in God

Finding All Things in God
Author: Hans Gustafson
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 357
Release: 2015-12-04
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1498217982

Hans Gustafson proposes pansacramentalism as holding potential for finding the divine in all things and all things in the divine, which carries significant inherent interreligious implications--especially for doing theology. Presupposing the challenge of doing theology divorced from spirituality (lived religious experience), he presents pansacramentalism as a bridge between the two. In so doing, Gustafson offers a history of spirituality and sketches the foundations of a classical approach to sacramentality (through Aquinas) and a contemporary approach to the same (through Rahner and Chauvet). By presenting three fascinating case studies, this book offers particular instances of sacramentality in lived religious experience (i.e., sacramental spirituality). These case studies draw on Thomas Merton and place, Nicholas Black Elk and multiple religious identity, and Fyodor Dostoevsky and Wendell Berry and literature. The book culminates by a) constructing a philosophy of sacramental mediation and criteriology of sacrament, b) engaging panentheism and the suffering of God and world, and c) proposing "panentheistic pansacramentalism" as a new model for understanding the divine-world relationship set in the context of a pansacramental theology of religious pluralism. Finally, a method for doing theology interreligiously is offered based on the overall content of the book and within the context of the interdisciplinary field of interreligious studies.

Deification in Christ

Deification in Christ
Author: Panayiotis Nellas
Publisher: St Vladimirs Seminary Press
Total Pages: 254
Release: 1987
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780881410303

An excellent introduction to patristic anthropology. Cites a number of patristic passages at length, providing helpful references and notes.

The Todas

The Todas
Author: William Halse Rivers Rivers
Publisher:
Total Pages: 820
Release: 1906
Genre: Toda (Indic people)
ISBN: