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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"theosis"”.
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Analysis and Evaluation of Vladimir Lossky's Doctrine of Theosis
… analyzes and evaluates the doctrine of theosis as it is presented in the work of Vladimir Lossky, one of the leading contemporary spokesmen for Orthodox theology. Two main questions set up the purpose of the study: Is Lossky's soteriological position biblical, and is Lossky's …
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Sacrament of Deification: The Eucharistic Vision of Alexander Schmemann in Light of the Doctrine of Theosis
… posits that 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 …
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Salvation and the Will: Human and Divine Cooperation in the Theologies of Martin Luther and Maximus the Confessor
… has been often 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 …
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Open Secret: Henry Corbin, Elliot Wolfson, and the Mystical Poetics of Deification
… answer two 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 …
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Reading in Zion: Book Cultures of Mormon Youth, 1869–1890
… for distinctly Mormon ends, including achieving theosis (chapter 1), navigating changing dynamics in Mormon families (chapter 2), and building their utopic society, Zion (chapter 3). This research adds to the work of those scholars who have combined the history of Mormonism with book history. It …
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Christosis: Pauline Soteriology in Light of Deification in Irenaeus and Cyril of Alexandria
… thesis is to explore whether and to what extent theosis helpfully captures Paul's presentation of the anthropological dimension of soteriology. Drawing methodologically from Gadamer, Jauss, and Bakhtin, we attempt to hold a conversation between Paul and two of his later interpreters--Irenaeus and …
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The development of the concept of authority within the Romanian Orthodox Church during the Twentieth Century
… eschatological self-realization, that is, theosis. The key to understanding authority from a relational perspective is the concept of 'space', which provides for both freedom and relatedness between the elements involved. However, since the concept of space is a dynamic category due to its …
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Becoming God, Becoming the Buddha: The Relation of Identity and Praxis in the Thought of Maximus the Confessor and Kūkai
… Maximus, this process of divinization is called theosis (θέωσις), ‘deification’. He follows in a long line of Christian thinkers who hold that God created human beings in order to make them like himself, to become by grace what God is by nature. In Kūkai, this process is known as sokushin jōbutsu …
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Hän tekee kuolleet eläviksi ja kutsuu olemattomat olemaan : Tuomo Mannermaan käsitys uskon kautta Kristuksen ja ihmisen välille syntyvästä uniosta vanhurskauden perustana
Tässä tutkimuksessa tarkastellaan Tuomo Mannermaan erityisesti In ipsa fide Christus adest -tutkielmassa esiin tulevaa ajatusta Kristuksen ja ihmisen välille syntyvästä uniosta vanhurskauden perustana. Tutkielmassa selvitetään millainen tämä unio Mannermaan mukaan on, sekä mikä sen merkitys on …