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The(cid:327)sis Dei(cid:192) cation in Christian Theology VVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVooooooooooooooooooolllllllllllllllluuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmeeeeeeeeeeeeee TTTTTTwwwwwwwwwwwwoooooooooooooo edited by Vladimir Kharlamov C Theosis Theōsis fi Dei cation in Christian Theology Volume Two edited by Vladimir Kharlamov C James Clarke & Co. James Clarke & Co. P.O. Box 60 Cambridge CB1 2NT www.jamesclarke.co [email protected] ISBN: 978 0 227 68033 9 British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A record is available from the British Library Copyright © Wipf & Stock 2012 First Published, 2012 This edition is published by arrangement with Pickwick Publications All rights reserved. No part of this edition may be reproduced, stored electronically or in any retrieval system, or transmitt ed in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without prior writt en permission from the Publisher ([email protected]). Contents List of Contributors / vii Abbreviations / ix Introduction—Vladimir Kharlamov / 1 1 Deification in Jesus’ Teaching—Stephen Finlan / 21 2 The Idea of Deification in the Early Eastern Church —Ivan V. Popov (trans. Boris Jakim) / 42 3 Clement of Alexandria on Trinitarian and Metaphysical Relationality in the Context of Deification —Vladimir Kharlamov / 83 4 Basil of Caesarea and the Cappadocians on the Distinction between Essence and Energies in God and Its Relevance to the Deification Theme—Vladimir Kharlamov / 100 5 Bridging the Gap: Theosis in Antioch and Alexandria —Joel C. Elowsky / 146 6 Theosis, Texts and Identity: the Philokalia (1782) —a Case Study—Paul M. Collins / 182 7 Between Creation and Salvation: Theosis and Theurgy —Paul M. Collins / 192 8 Participation in God: The Appropriation of Theosis by Contemporary Baptist Theologians—Mark S. Medley / 205 Resources for Deification in Christian Theology —Vladimir Kharlamov / 247 Bibliography for Sources Cited in This Volume / 267 Index / 279 Contributors P M. C (PhD, University of London) is the author of a num- ber of books, including Partaking in Divine Nature: Deification and Communion (2010), Trinity: Guide for the Perplexed (2008), Christian Inculturation in India (2007), Context, Culture, and Worship: The Quest for Indian-ness (2006), Trinitarian Theology West and East: Karl Barth, the Cappadocian Fathers, and John Zizioulas (2001). He is a priest in the Church of England. J C. E (PhD, Drew) is Associate Professor at Concordia University Wisconsin and Research Director for the Center for Early African Christianity. He has served as the Research Director for the recently completed Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture (InterVarsity Press), and has published a number of books, most re- cently We Believe in the Holy Spirit (2009). S F (PhD, Durham) teaches at Salve Regina University, and has taught at Fordham and Drew Universities. He is the author of six academic books, including Problems With Atonement: The Origins of, and Controversy about, the Atonement Doctrine (2005) and The Family Metaphor in Jesus’ Teaching (2009). He is also the coeditor, with Vladimir Kharlamov, of Theosis: Deification in Christian Theology (2006). B J is the foremost translator of Russian religious thought into English. He has translated works by S. L. Frank, Pavel Florensky, Vladimir Solovyov, Sergius Bulgakov, and Fyodor Dostoevsky. V K (PhD, Drew) has taught at Fairleigh Dickinson University and Sioux Falls Seminary, the author of The Beauty of the Unity and the Harmony of the Whole: The Concept of Theosis in the Theology of Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite (2009), and coeditor, with Stephen Finlan, of Theosis: Deification in Christian Theology (2006). vii viii Contributors Mark Medley (PhD, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary) is Associate Professor of Christian Theology at the Baptist Seminary of Kentucky, former co-chair of the Constructive Theologies section for the Southeast Region of the AAR, co-chair of the Evangelical Catholic/ Catholic Evangelical Consultation of the College Theology Society, and the author of Imago Trinitatis: Toward a Relational Understanding of Becoming Human (2002). Abbreviations ABBREVIATIONS FOR EDITIONS AND COLLECTIONS ACW Ancient Christian Writers: The Works of the Fathers in Translation. Mahwah, NJ: Paulist, 1946–. ANF The Ante-Nicene Fathers. Edited by Alexander Roberts and James Donaldson. 1885–1887. 10 vols. Reprint. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 1994. CSCO Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium. Louvain, Belgium, 1903–. FC Fathers of the Church: A New Translation. Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 1947–. GCS Die griechischen christlichen Schriftsteller der ersten Jahrhunderte. Berlin: Akademie, 1897–. GNO W. Jaeger, ed. Gregorii Nysseni Opera. Leiden: Brill, 1952–. LCC J. Baillie et al., eds. The Library of Christian Classics. 26 vols. Philadelphia: Westminster, 1953–1966. LCL Loeb Classical Library. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1912–. LF A Library of Fathers of the Holy Catholic Church Anterior to the Division of the East and West. Translated by members of the English Church. Oxford: John Henry Parker, 1838–1881. NPNF The Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers. 2 series. Edited by Philip Schaff. 1886–1889. 28 vols. Reprint. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 1994. PG Patrologiae Cursus Completus, Series Graeca. 166 vols. Edited by J. P. Migne. Paris, 1857–1886. ix

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