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Deification in Classical Greek Philosophy and the Bible
To be human is to strive to be better, and we cannot be better without knowing what is best. In ancient Greek philosophy and the Bible, what is best is god. Plato and Aristotle argue that the goal of human life is to become as much like god as is humanly
James Bernard Murphy
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2019
Abstract Chapter 4 analyses Nikolai Berdiaev’s first philosophical statement The Meaning of Creativity (1916) in the context of the theosophy of Jakob Boehme. It is shown how Berdiaev adopts the deification narrative primarily as expressed by Boehme rather than in the Orthodox theological tradition, and the ways in which the two ...
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Abstract Chapter 4 analyses Nikolai Berdiaev’s first philosophical statement The Meaning of Creativity (1916) in the context of the theosophy of Jakob Boehme. It is shown how Berdiaev adopts the deification narrative primarily as expressed by Boehme rather than in the Orthodox theological tradition, and the ways in which the two ...
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2018
This volume brings together a series of contributions by leading theologians on the doctrine of theosis or deification in the Eastern and Western Christian traditions. While it is still often assumed that the theme of theosis was exclusively developed in the Eastern theological tradition after the Patristic period, and that it has since been a ...
Faesen, Rob, Arblaster, John
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This volume brings together a series of contributions by leading theologians on the doctrine of theosis or deification in the Eastern and Western Christian traditions. While it is still often assumed that the theme of theosis was exclusively developed in the Eastern theological tradition after the Patristic period, and that it has since been a ...
Faesen, Rob, Arblaster, John
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Journal of Roman Studies, 1957
Towards the close of the Epitaphios of Libanius on Julian we read:–I have mentioned representations (of Julian); many cities have set him beside the images of the gods and honour him as they do the gods. Already a blessing has been besought of him in prayer, and it was not in vain.
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Towards the close of the Epitaphios of Libanius on Julian we read:–I have mentioned representations (of Julian); many cities have set him beside the images of the gods and honour him as they do the gods. Already a blessing has been besought of him in prayer, and it was not in vain.
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2019
Abstract Chapter 5 analyses Sergei Bulgakov’s The Philosophy of Economy (1912) in the context of the philosophy of F. W. J. Schelling and the theology of Maximus the Confessor. Bulgakov elaborates an original theory of human economic activity as the instrument by which the material world is divinized. The work is Bulgakov’s first attempt
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Abstract Chapter 5 analyses Sergei Bulgakov’s The Philosophy of Economy (1912) in the context of the philosophy of F. W. J. Schelling and the theology of Maximus the Confessor. Bulgakov elaborates an original theory of human economic activity as the instrument by which the material world is divinized. The work is Bulgakov’s first attempt
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Abstract This chapter revisits the Christian notion of deification in light of analogous soteriological notions operative in traditions of dharma religions, such as Hinduism and Buddhism. First, a brief genealogy of deification in the early Christian East is presented, contrasting the “Origenist” construal of soteriology and the post ...
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2019
Abstract Chapter 6 analyses Pavel Florensky’s The Pillar and Ground of the Truth (1914) in the context of Florensky’s still recent conversion to Christianity and of the tradition of contemplative mysticism (hesychasm) as expressed in the Philokalia and embodied in the saintly elders (startsy) of the Orthodox Church.
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Abstract Chapter 6 analyses Pavel Florensky’s The Pillar and Ground of the Truth (1914) in the context of Florensky’s still recent conversion to Christianity and of the tradition of contemplative mysticism (hesychasm) as expressed in the Philokalia and embodied in the saintly elders (startsy) of the Orthodox Church.
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