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A fresh exploration of the themes of God's unknowable nature and participation in God through Christ, approached from a Trinitarian standpoint.
The complex nature of Christian communion with a personal God requires a nuanced expression. Since its inception, the early church affirmed God's unknowable nature and also participation in God through Christ. The church fathers employed the language of theosis in talking about union with God and human transformation in the likeness of God. However, the term theosis or deification is a broad category and requires precise explanation to avoid human dissolution into the divine in the mystical union it attempts to describe. In Triadosis, Eduard Borysov offers a new approach to the conundrum of the imparticipable divine nature and the prospect of personal union between human and the Trinity. Most significantly, he proposes that if God is Trinity, then we are created and restored in the image of the same tri-personal God.
The complex nature of Christian communion with a personal God requires a nuanced expression. Since its inception, the early church affirmed God's unknowable nature and also participation in God through Christ. The church fathers employed the language of theosis in talking about union with God and human transformation in the likeness of God. However, the term theosis or deification is a broad category and requires precise explanation to avoid human dissolution into the divine in the mystical union it attempts to describe. In Triadosis, Eduard Borysov offers a new approach to the conundrum of the imparticipable divine nature and the prospect of personal union between human and the Trinity. Most significantly, he proposes that if God is Trinity, then we are created and restored in the image of the same tri-personal God.
Price: $29.99
Pages: 240
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Inc.
Imprint: James Clarke
Publication Date:
30 September 2021
Trim Size: 5.98 X 8.98 in
ISBN: 9780227177495
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
RELIGION / Theology, Theology
Preface | ix
Abbreviations | xi
Chapter 1: Introduction | 1
Outline and Sources | 3
Methodology | 4
Potential Hermeneutical Objections | 6
Limitations of This Project | 11
Recent Scholarship on Theosis in Paul | 13
Chapter 2: Early Approaches to Theosis | 18
Introduction | 18
Apotheosis | 19
Christosis | 39
Triadosis | 55
Energeosis | 71
Conclusion | 81
Chapter 3: Reformers and Triadosis | 84
Introduction | 84
Traditional Lutheran and Calvinist Interpretations | 85
Luther and Deification | 88
Calvin and Deification | 102
Conclusion | 119
Chapter 4: Contemporary Eastern Orthodox Retrieval of Triadosis | 123
Introduction | 123
Zizioulas's Critiques of Apotheosis and Energeosis | 123
Zizioulas's View of Personhood | 125
Conclusion | 147
Chapter 5: Recent Retrievals of Theosis in Paul | 149
Introduction | 149
M. David Litwa | 149
Ben C. Blackwell | 176
Michael J. Gorman | 188
Conclusion | 193
Chapter 6: Conclusion | 195
Summary of Argument | 195
Original Contribution | 196
Further Implications | 197
Bibliography | 199
Subject and Author Index | 217
Scripture Index | 225
Abbreviations | xi
Chapter 1: Introduction | 1
Outline and Sources | 3
Methodology | 4
Potential Hermeneutical Objections | 6
Limitations of This Project | 11
Recent Scholarship on Theosis in Paul | 13
Chapter 2: Early Approaches to Theosis | 18
Introduction | 18
Apotheosis | 19
Christosis | 39
Triadosis | 55
Energeosis | 71
Conclusion | 81
Chapter 3: Reformers and Triadosis | 84
Introduction | 84
Traditional Lutheran and Calvinist Interpretations | 85
Luther and Deification | 88
Calvin and Deification | 102
Conclusion | 119
Chapter 4: Contemporary Eastern Orthodox Retrieval of Triadosis | 123
Introduction | 123
Zizioulas's Critiques of Apotheosis and Energeosis | 123
Zizioulas's View of Personhood | 125
Conclusion | 147
Chapter 5: Recent Retrievals of Theosis in Paul | 149
Introduction | 149
M. David Litwa | 149
Ben C. Blackwell | 176
Michael J. Gorman | 188
Conclusion | 193
Chapter 6: Conclusion | 195
Summary of Argument | 195
Original Contribution | 196
Further Implications | 197
Bibliography | 199
Subject and Author Index | 217
Scripture Index | 225