The Oxford Handbook of Deification

NOTE EDITORE

Modern theological engagements on deification have undergone two major paradigm shifts. First, the study of deification shifted from the periphery of theological discourse to its center. For Adolf von Harnack, deification was a pagan import that fatally corrupted and distorted the Gospel message of salvation. In response, the positive retrieval of the concept of deification belongs to the early years of the twentieth century. By the 1910s in Russian religious thought and by the 1930s in much Roman Catholic theology, deification had become a magnet concept attracting attention from many different viewpoints. The second important shift relates to how deification is characterized. Recent studies question the exclusively 'Eastern' character of deification and draw attention to the engagements of this theme in Latin patristic and later Western Christian sources. Reassessing the evidence for these two major shifts, The Oxford Handbook of Deification comprehensively explores the points of convergence and difference on the constitutive elements of deification in different traditions, and offers a foundation for ecumenical and interreligious dialogues. The Handbook's first part analyzes the cultural and scriptural roots of deification; the second part explores the most significant historical contributions to the understanding of deification in the early, medieval, and modern periods; the third part develops systematic connections. Readers will discover a surprizing breadth, depth, and diversity of theologies of deification in Christian traditions. Throughout the Handbook, leading scholars in the field of Deification Studies propose vital new insights from a variety of perspectives for this central mystery at the heart of the Christian faith.

SOMMARIO

1 - Ancient Greek Cultural and Philosophical Background2 - Hebrew Bible/Old Testament3 - The "Non-Biblical" Writings of Early Judaism4 - Deification in the Pauline and Petrine Letters5 - ication in the Synoptics and the Johannine Literature6 - Second- and Third-Century Greek Fathers7 - Athanasius of Alexandria and the Cappadocian Fathers8 - Deification in Macarius, Evagrius, and Dionysius9 - The Syriac Fathers10 - The Latin Fathers and Augustine11 - Cyril of Alexandria12 - "Man became God to the degree that God became man": Maximus the Confessor and the Doctrine of Deification13 - Deification in the Early Medieval Latin West14 - Symeon the New Theologian and Byzantine Monasticism15 - The Cistercians and Victorines16 - Aquinas and Bonaventure on Deification17 - St Gregory Palamas and Palamism18 - Western Vernacular Mystics19 - Martin Luther and the Early Lutherans20 - John Calvin and Early Reformed Theology21 - Pierre de Bérulle and François de Sales22 - Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Anglicans23 - Pietism, the Moravian Brethren, and the Wesleys24 - Deification in St Nikodimos of the Holy Mountain, St Makarios of Corinth, and the Philokalia25 - Jacob Boehme, German Idealism, and Romanticism26 - Nineteenth-Century Catholic and Anglican Thinkers27 - Nineteenth-Century Russian and Ukrainian Religious Thinkers28 - Twentieth-Century Russian Orthodox Theologians29 - Karl Barth's Critique of Deification30 - Deification in Neo-Thomist and Ressourcement Theology31 - Deification in Recent Anglican and Protestant Theology32 - Deification in Contemporary Greek Orthodox Theologians33 - Deification and the Metaphysics of Participation34 - Deification and the Trinity35 - Deification and Christology36 - Deification and Ecclesiology37 - Deification and Theological Anthropology38 - Deification, Justification, and Sanctification: An Early Christian Philosophical Approach39 - Deification in Sacraments, Liturgy, and Prayer40 - Deification and Ecology41 - Deification and Eschatology42 - Deification and Ecumenical Dialogues43 - Dialogues with Jews and Muslims44 - Christian Deification: Dialogues with the Dharma Religions

AUTORE

Paul L. Gavrilyuk holds the Aquinas Chair in Theology and Philosophy in the Theology Department of the University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, Minnesota. His many books include Perceiving Things Divine: Towards a Constructive Account of Spiritual Perception (OUP, 2022--co-edited with Frederick Aquino) and Georges Florovsky and the Russian Religious Renaissance (OUP, 2013). He is the founding president of two nonprofits: International Orthodox Theological Association (iota-web.org) and Rebuild Ukraine (rebuild-ua.org). Andrew Hofer, O.P. is Ordinary Professor of Patristics and Ancient Languages at the Pontifical Faculty of the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, DC, where he also serves as editor-in-chief of The Thomist. He is the author of Christ in the Life and Teaching of Gregory of Nazianzus (OUP, 2013) and The Power of Patristic Preaching: The Word in Our Flesh (2023). Matthew Levering holds the James N. Jr. and Mary D. Perry Chair of Theology at Mundelein Seminary. His recent books include Did Jesus Rise from the Dead? Historical and Theological Reflections (OUP, 2019) and Aquinas's Eschatological Ethics and the Virtue of Temperance (2019). He serves as co-editor of two quarterly journals, Nova et Vetera and International Journal of Systematic Theology.

ALTRE INFORMAZIONI

• Condizione: Nuovo
• ISBN: 9780198865179
• Dimensioni: 254 x 45.0 x 180 mm Ø 1484 gr
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pagine Arabe: 752