Partaking in Divine Nature: Deification and Communion
Autor Rev Dr Paul M. Collinsen Limba Engleză Paperback – 21 dec 2011
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780567262967
ISBN-10: 0567262960
Pagini: 240
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 12 mm
Greutate: 0.33 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția T&T Clark
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0567262960
Pagini: 240
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 12 mm
Greutate: 0.33 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția T&T Clark
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
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Caracteristici
Provides
an
overview
of
the
understanding
of
theosis
in
East
and
West,
thereby
widening
readeship.
Notă biografică
Revd
Dr
Paul
M.
Collins,
formerly
Reader
in
Theology
at
the
University
of
Chichester,
Parish
Priest
on
Holy
Island,
Northumberland,
England.
Cuprins
Introductionto
the
thesis
of
the
book
and
its
contentsDeificationin
pre-Christian
traditionsincluding
Greek
and
Indian
traditions;
assessment
of
the
influence
of
these
upon
Christian
understandings
of
incarnation
and
salvation.Deification
in
Eastern
Orthodox
Traditionincluding
discussion
of
salvation
in
terms
of
recapitulation;
understandings
of
'the
Cross';
an
examination
of
the
development
oftheosisin
patristic
and
medieval
authors:
e.g.
Origen,
Athanasius,
the
Cappadocian
fathers,
Ps-Dionysius,
Maximus
the
Confessor,
Symeon
the
Theologian,
Gregory
Palamas;
and
modern
authors
such
as
Bulgakov
and
Staniloae.
This
will
also
include
and
examination
of
how
divine
nature
is
understood
in
relation
totheosis.Deification
in
Western
Traditionsincluding
Thomas
Aquinas,
Martin
Luther,
the
Caroline
Divines
and
the
Wesleys;
as
well
as
recent
authors
both
Catholic
and
Protestant
e.g.
Karl
Rahner,
Catherine
Mowry
LaCugna,
Lars
Thunberg,
Norman
Russell;
as
well
as
an
assessment
of
the
place
of
'deification'
alongside
other
models
and
understandings
of
salvation
in
the
West.Deification
and
Relationality:imago
trinitatisdiscussion
of
divine
nature
understood
in
terms
ofkoinoniai.e.
in
terms
of
a
hermeneutic
of
relationality;
discussion
of
this
hermeneutic
in
the
works
of
Zizioulas,
Barth,
Torrance,
Gunton,
Hardy,
Schwöbel;
discussion
of
Rahner's
place
in
&
contribution
to
this
debate;
discussion
of
dialectical
understandings
of
difference
and
repetition
(inc.
Deleuze)
and
how
these
concepts
inform
a
relational
understanding
oftheosis.Deification:
Transformation
and
Community[a]
discussion
of
the
implications
and
applications
of
these
findings
in
relation
to
Christian
community
(Church)
and
Christian
life
(discipleship).
[b]theosisand
the
body
'garments
of
skin':
asceticism,
materiality
and
sexuality;
[c]theosisand
the
Virtues:
imitation
of
Christ;
participating
in
the
sacraments;
[d]
Christological
focus
of
transformation:
the
Hypostatic
Union
and
the
Transfiguration:
application
for
the
Church?
Church
community
as
thelocusof
formation
for
partaking
in
the
relationality
of
the
divine:
discipleship
and
deification.Conclusion
/
Summary
of
findings
Recenzii
In
this
clearly
written
and
informative
book,
Paul
Collins
dispels
two
myths
that
surround
the
notion
of
deification:
that
it
is
the
property
of
Eastern
Orthodox
Christians
and
that
it
is
inherently
individualistic.
Collins
demonstrates
definitively
that
the
metaphor
of
deification
has
structured
the
Christian
imagination
of
the
entire
Christian
tradition,
'East'
and
'West',
and
that
it
is
necessarily
a
communal
and
relational
reality
with
cultural
and
political
implications.
He
advances
the
discussion
on
deification
in
a
way
that
will
impact
how
Churches
understand
and
relate
to
each
other
and
to
the
world.
Paul Collins does a wonderful job of presenting a florilegia of authors and traditions towards elucidating a modern appropriation of a theology of theosis. He creatively builds upon a complementarity of approaches, of what it means to become holy and transfigured by divine grace, by drawing upon early church traditions, Eastern Orthodoxy and Western Christianity, and their rootedness in the Scriptures, with a view to showing how deification is at once personal, yet ecclesial and cosmic.
Paul Collins, who already in his previous books on Trinitarian theology has made great efforts to bring theological insights from Eastern - Patristic and modern - sources in dialogue with Western theology, is now applying the same method in a new book on the metaphor of deification. Even if during the last decade almost every year a new theological monograph was published with either 'theosis', 'divinization' or 'deification' in the title, Paul Collins's book contains a good deal of new insights which more than justify its publication. This is true for the helpful account on how ancient philosophy understood concepts like 'apotheosis' and 'theurgy' or on how crucial passages from the Hebrew Scriptures have been interpreted in the New Testament. As from his analysis of the biblical and the Patristic tradition the author is convinced that deification is not only an individual experience, but that it has a collective aspect as well. This is also reflected in the subtitle of the book: Deification and Communion. Collins is aware that Orthodox Christianity - of which the major authors are introduced with due attention to their biographical context - tends to consider itself as the only legitimate heir of the doctrine of deification. One of the more innovating aspects of this book, however, is the author's retrieval of (fragments of) a theology of deification in the West in the work of particular scholastic and medieval theologians and of the early modern mystics. As far as the Protestant tradition is concerned, there is more to mention than Harnack's critique of deification. As important elements in the construal of the architecture of deification in the West, Paul Collins also pays attention to the so-called of Lutheran studies, to theologians such as Ritschl and the Cambridge Platonists, the Wesleys and Pentecostalism. The author believes that it still makes sense to develop a systematic theological treatise of deification - meant to be anything but elitist and to appeal to every believer - even in a detraditionalised Western European context. He does so in the final chapter, 'Transformation and Community'. Deification first of all makes an appeal to the religious experience of the believing subject who at the same time is to be aware of the limitations of any human knowledge of God. Deification is, furthermore, also partaking in the communion within the Triune God, which requires in turn an ecclesial community in which the believer gains access to even further aspects of the reality of deification: being nourished by the sacraments and becoming a virtuous community. I hope that this book may reach a wide audience, not only of theology students but also of many other readers who want to find inspiration in their quest for a meaningful life.
... Paul Collins has opened up exciting new directions for us. This is a well-conceived and carefully researched work, which will, in connection with other works on deification, spur further research in this field.
Paul Collins does a wonderful job of presenting a florilegia of authors and traditions towards elucidating a modern appropriation of a theology of theosis. He creatively builds upon a complementarity of approaches, of what it means to become holy and transfigured by divine grace, by drawing upon early church traditions, Eastern Orthodoxy and Western Christianity, and their rootedness in the Scriptures, with a view to showing how deification is at once personal, yet ecclesial and cosmic.
Paul Collins, who already in his previous books on Trinitarian theology has made great efforts to bring theological insights from Eastern - Patristic and modern - sources in dialogue with Western theology, is now applying the same method in a new book on the metaphor of deification. Even if during the last decade almost every year a new theological monograph was published with either 'theosis', 'divinization' or 'deification' in the title, Paul Collins's book contains a good deal of new insights which more than justify its publication. This is true for the helpful account on how ancient philosophy understood concepts like 'apotheosis' and 'theurgy' or on how crucial passages from the Hebrew Scriptures have been interpreted in the New Testament. As from his analysis of the biblical and the Patristic tradition the author is convinced that deification is not only an individual experience, but that it has a collective aspect as well. This is also reflected in the subtitle of the book: Deification and Communion. Collins is aware that Orthodox Christianity - of which the major authors are introduced with due attention to their biographical context - tends to consider itself as the only legitimate heir of the doctrine of deification. One of the more innovating aspects of this book, however, is the author's retrieval of (fragments of) a theology of deification in the West in the work of particular scholastic and medieval theologians and of the early modern mystics. As far as the Protestant tradition is concerned, there is more to mention than Harnack's critique of deification. As important elements in the construal of the architecture of deification in the West, Paul Collins also pays attention to the so-called of Lutheran studies, to theologians such as Ritschl and the Cambridge Platonists, the Wesleys and Pentecostalism. The author believes that it still makes sense to develop a systematic theological treatise of deification - meant to be anything but elitist and to appeal to every believer - even in a detraditionalised Western European context. He does so in the final chapter, 'Transformation and Community'. Deification first of all makes an appeal to the religious experience of the believing subject who at the same time is to be aware of the limitations of any human knowledge of God. Deification is, furthermore, also partaking in the communion within the Triune God, which requires in turn an ecclesial community in which the believer gains access to even further aspects of the reality of deification: being nourished by the sacraments and becoming a virtuous community. I hope that this book may reach a wide audience, not only of theology students but also of many other readers who want to find inspiration in their quest for a meaningful life.
... Paul Collins has opened up exciting new directions for us. This is a well-conceived and carefully researched work, which will, in connection with other works on deification, spur further research in this field.