Theosis: Deification in Christian Theology, Volume Two

294 Pages·2011·7.035 MB·English

by  Vladimir Kharlamo

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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).
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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.
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