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List of contents
Introduction: Faith, Reason, and Theosis | 1
Aristotle Papanikolaou and George E. Demacopoulos PART I: THEOTIC EXISTENCEWaking the Gods: Theosis as Reason's Natural End | 15
David Bentley HartDoes Aquinas Have the Orthodox Concept of Theosis? | 37
Jean PorterDeification as Christification and Human Becoming | 72
Philip KariatlisTheosis as Kenosis: The Paradox of Holy Intimacy in the Theology of Hans Urs von Balthasar | 93
Carolyn ChauMartin Luther on Faith and Union with God: Speculations on Theosis | 112
Kirsi StjernaDifferentiation as Disfigurement: A Womanist Polemic against the Co-optation of the Divine Essence | 133
Michele E. WatkinsPART II: THEOTIC KNOWINGRevelation, Reason, and Holiness: A Wesleyan Perspective | 159
William J. AbrahamThe Ambiguous Meanings of Theosis in Modern and Postmodern Discourse | 176
Andrew PrevotSpeculation and Theosis in Vladimir Lossky and Meister Eckhart | 198
Robert Glenn DavisKnowing through Unknowing: The Qualified Necessity of Human Reason in Dionysius | 218
Peter BouteneffKnowing in Theosis: A Byzantine Mystical Theological Approach | 231
Ashley PurpuraDeification in Evagrius Ponticus and the Transmission of the Kephalaia Gnostika in Syriac and Arabic | 251
Stephen J. DavisThe Embodied Logos: Reason, Knowledge, and Relation | 267
Rowan WilliamsAcknowledgments | 293
List of Contributors | 295
Index | 301
About the author
Aristotle Papanikolaou (Edited By) Aristotle Papanikolaou is Professor of Theology, the Archbishop Demetrios Chair of Orthodox Theology and Culture, and the Co-Director of the Orthodox Christian Studies Center at Fordham University. He is also Senior Fellow at the Emory University Center for the Study of Law and Religion. He is the author of
Being with God: Trinity, Apophaticism, and Divine-Human Communion and
The Mystical as Political: Democracy and Non-Radical Orthodoxy.
George E. Demacopoulos (Edited By) George E. Demacopoulos is Fr. John Meyendorff & Patterson Family Chair of Orthodox Christian Studies and Professor of Theology at Fordham University. He is the author of
Colonizing Christianity: Greek and Latin Religious Identity in the Era of the Fourth Crusade and
Gregory the Great: Ascetic, Pastor, and First Man of Rome.
