Alexis Torrance

Human Perfection in Byzantine Theology

Attaining the Fullness of Christ

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Produktbeschreibung

This work studies the approach to the question of human perfection in a number of seminal Byzantine theological figures (from 7th-14th centuries), in conversation with modern Orthodox Christian thought. The Byzantine authors examined include Maximus the Confessor, Theodore the Studite, Symeon the New Theologian, and Gregory Palamas.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 254
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 160mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9780198845294
• ISBN-10: 0198845294
• Artikelnr.: 59886570

Autorenporträt

Alexis Torrance is the Archbishop Demetrios Associate Professor of Byzantine Theology at the University of Notre Dame, where he has taught since 2014. He took his degrees at the University of Oxford and has held research fellowships at the Notre Dame Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University, the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, and Dumbarton Oaks in Washington DC.

Inhaltsangabe

* Preface
* Acknowledgements
* 1: Human perfection in Orthodox theological anthropology: retrieving
the Christological imperative
* 2: Perpetual progress or eternal rest? Contemplating the eschaton in
St Maximus the Confessor
* 3: Perfection before our eyes: St Theodore the Studite on the
humanity of Christ
* 4: I am called by two names, human and divine: dogma and deification
in St Symeon the New Theologian
* 5: The energy of deification and the person of Jesus Christ in St
Gregory Palamas
* Conclusion