Norman Russell (now an Formerly Vice-Provost of the London Oratory

The Doctrine of Deification in the Greek Patristic Tradition

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Produktbeschreibung

Deification was not only a pagan concept but a metaphor for a deeply Christian view of the purpose of human life. Norman Russell brings together much recent research on the Church Fathers from the second to the seventh centuries, offering an analysis of their spiritual teaching and setting it within the context of the times.

Produktdetails

• Oxford Early Christian Studies
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 434
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. September 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 670g
• ISBN-13: 9780199205974
• ISBN-10: 0199205973
• Artikelnr.: 24488957

Autorenporträt

Norman is an established novelist and academic writer, an MA of Jesus College, Oxford, and a PhD of Birkbeck College, University of London. An English specialist, he taught English for many years in a Liverpool comprehensive school before becoming a full-time writer. Norman has had over twenty novels published. He is a recognised authority on Victorian finance and its reflections in the 19th century novel, and his book on the subject, The Novelist and Mammon, was published by the Oxford University Press. Norman has also had three academic books of Roman Catholic interest published.

Inhaltsangabe

1: Introduction
2: Deification in the Graeco-Roman World
3: The Jewish Paradigm: From Ezekiel to the yored merkavah
4: The Earliest Christian Model: Participatory Union with Christ
5: The Alexandrian Tradition I: Christian Schools and Study-Circles
6: The Alexandrian Tradition II: The Imposition of Episcopal Control
7: The Cappadocian Approach: Divine Transcendence and the Ascent of the Soul
8: The Monastic Synthesis: The Achievement of Maximus the Confessor
9: Epilogue