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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"Deification"”.
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The question of deification in the theology of John Calvin
… through the lens of the Eastern idea of deification. The studies of the theology of John Calvin, who is a leading figure in the Reformation tradition, cannot avoid such a tendency, either. Not a few scholars have affirmed Calvin's doctrine of deification, in a way, akin to the Eastern …
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Augustinian Interiority: The Teleological Deification of the Soul through Divine Grace
… happiness(i.e., teleology). Augustine approaches deification chiefly in terms of the ‘image of God’, from the perspectives of ontology and teleology. Ontologically, we are created inthe image of God and this image is indestructible as long as God sustains our life. Teleologically, the image has …
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Open Secret: Henry Corbin, Elliot Wolfson, and the Mystical Poetics of Deification
… fundamental questions. First, what is theosis or deification? And second, given that mystics in the three Abrahamic faiths have written experientially of deification, what might be some of the phenomenological and anthropological lessons that we can learn today from their insights into the nature …
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Christosis: Pauline Soteriology in Light of Deification in Irenaeus and Cyril of Alexandria
… order to see what light the development of deification in these later writers shines on the Pauline texts themselves. In Part 1 of the thesis, we analyse how Irenaeus and Cyril develop their notions of deification and how they use Pauline texts in support of their conclusions. Drawing from …
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Sacrament of Deification: The Eucharistic Vision of Alexander Schmemann in Light of the Doctrine of Theosis
… the Eastern Christian doctrine of theosis, or deification, informs, enhances and illuminates Eucharistic understanding. It argues that the Eucharistic vision of Orthodox priest and theologian, Father Alexander Schmemann, offers the most cogent evidence in support of the intrinsic link between …
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Between gods and men : analyzing the Aztec deification of the Spanish Conquistadores and reassessing its significance
… the Spaniards to be gods. This tale of Spanish deification has sparked heated debate among scholars for centuries as they have been asking, "Did the Aztecs truly believe the Spaniards to be gods?" This question naturally results in two lines of argument, those who think the Aztecs did believe …
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"Gods in human form?" : a study of the acclamations of divinity in the Acts of the Apostles.
… the broader ancient Mediterranean context of deification. It demonstrates that divine acclamations in Acts do not conform to a single pattern of deification but several distinct patterns serving different purposes. This study begins by outlining the various ways humans were thought to be …
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Deus in se et Deus pro nobis: The Transfiguration in the Theology of Gregory Palamas and Its Importance for Catholic Theology
… and partially effects the eschatological deification that takes place fully in the face to face vision of God. Palamas' teaching on the Transfiguration as theophany synthesizes insights from the Eastern patristic tradition regarding theology of revelation, deification, and eschatology. …
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Pain, Human Redemption, and Medicine: James Hinton's Theological Appropriation of Pain
… redemptive nexus of suffering, beneficence, and deification in light of the Jewish and Christian traditions. While our exploration shows that the biblical tradition interweaves suffering, beneficence and deification, we also see that the biblical tradition adds elements that Hinton's treatment …
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The effectiveness of Nazi propaganda during World War II
… anti-Soviet propaganda, and the intense media deification of Hitler that came to be known as the Hitler Myth.</p>
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The Delicate Art of Being: Psychological Responses to Environmental Damage in American Fiction of the 1970s
… of the environmental movement as a biocentric deification of nature. These depictions ask us to practice environmentally-aware, ecocentric acts of viewing that illuminate both abjected peoples and the interpenetrability of individuals and their environment, raising questions of environmental …
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THE CONCEPT OF ‘BEING’ IN AQUINAS AND PALAMAS
… being, the issue of grace and the views on deification. Before commencing the examination of the proposed issue, I found relevant to include an introduction dealing with the historical matters concerning each of the two theologians and their ‘dialogue’ within Eastern and Western theological …
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The Shadow of the comet : divine patronage in the rise of Augustus by Dora Y. Gao.
… will. With the comet as a symbol of his father's deification, Octavian's new status as divi filius portrayed him as a pious young man dedicated to the traditions of the Roman Republic and won him the early support of the people, the legions, and the Senate. This image persisted through the 30s and …
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The hermeneutical praxis of the 'Rule of faith' as generating an ecclesiology of community in Irenaeus of Lyons
… theological paradigms of Life, Incarnation, and Deification through a 'church faith and community' prism, Part II will seek to draw out four modern aspects of this historical dialectic of Irenaeus' theology that are central to church as 'community' and integrally related to 'faith as lifestyle.' …
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Salvation and the Will: Human and Divine Cooperation in the Theologies of Martin Luther and Maximus the Confessor
… characterized by the doctrine of theosis (or deification), understood as a process of ontological transformation culminating in union with God. These distinctive perspectives represent theological developments and divergences between Eastern and Western Christianity over several centuries. …
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Nietzsche as Philosopher of Religion
… redemption, even ""the divine"" and ""deification."" The opposition ""Dionysus versus the Crucified"" proves the key to Nietzsche's thought on religion: against a Christian-otherworldly, transcendence-oriented 'solution' to the problem of suffering (of 'evil'), Nietzsche poses the …
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The development of the concept of authority within the Romanian Orthodox Church during the Twentieth Century
… by the Orthodox paradigm of revelation-communion-deification. Accordingly, the role of authority in Orthodoxy is to enable the people of God and the entire creation to grow towards eschatological self-realization, that is, theosis. The key to understanding authority from a relational perspective …
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THEOLOGIA AND OIKONOMIA: THE SOTERIOLOGICAL GROUND OF GREGORY OF NAZIANZUS’S TRINITARIAN THEOLOGY.
… capable of union with God in the process of deification. Gregory thus fully identified Christ with humanity in its total manifestation, including the human mind with its fallen and rebellious desire, now assumed and redeemed in the incarnation. Hence Gregory placed the suffering image of …
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