Partaking in Divine Nature Deification and Communion

, by Collins, Paul M.

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ISBN: 9780567031877 | 056703187X
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Copyright: 7/29/2010

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An investigation of how understandings of theosis in the Christian Tradition have related to understandings of divine nature in terms of koinonia.

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Introduction	p. 1
A problematic doctrine	p. 2
Deification in the context of Christian Tradition	p. 4
Method	p. 5
Elements of the metaphor of deification	p. 9
Methodological approach	p. 10
Popular Piety, Philosophy and Scripture	p. 12
Introduction	p. 12
Apotheosis in the ancient world	p. 13
Philosophy	p. 18
Later Platonism	p. 23
The Jewish and Christian scriptures	p. 27
A patristic proof text	p. 32
Wisdom literature	p. 35
New Testament	p. 38
Early Church Witness	p. 49
Before Nicaea: didaskaleia, apologetics and exegesis	p. 51
Nicene orthodoxy: apologetics and polemics	p. 61
The Cappadocian Fathers	p. 65
Later witnesses	p. 69
The Doctrine of Deification in Orthodoxy	p. 74
Twentieth and twenty-first centuries	p. 77
Eighteenth and nineteenth centuries	p. 87
The Middle Ages	p. 95
The 'Architecture' of the Metaphor in the West	p. 111
Introduction	p. 111
Theologia Mystica	p. 112
The Medieval mystics	p. 122
The early modern mystics	p. 131
Mystical theology in the twentieth century	p. 137
Deification in the traditions of the Reformation	p. 141
Anabaptists	p. 150
The English Reformation	p. 152
The Great Awakening and 'Christian Perfection'	p. 156
The Oxford Movement and its legacy	p. 159
Holiness, perfection and the Holy Spirit	p. 163
Contemporary Roman Catholic teaching	p. 166
Transformation and Community	p. 171
The methodology of Mystical Theology	p. 173
Dynamic participation	p. 177
Sacraments as symbols of deification	p. 182
The practice of the Virtues	p. 188
Conclusion	p. 193
Bibliography	p. 195
Index of Subjects and Names	p. 207
Index of Scripture References	p. 217
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