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"Theosis, originally a Greek term for Christian divinisation or deification, has become a vogue word in modern theology. Norman Russell's innovative study is the first to offer a coherent narrative of how the concept of theosis developed in both its Eastern and Western versions, from Byzantium to the modern age"--
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Introduction: The Extraordinary Rise of a Theological Theme; 1. What Is 'Religion', What Is 'Theosis', and How Are They related?; 2. Byzantium: The Flowering of the Eastern Tradition of Theosis; 3. The Latin Heirs of Dionysius: Theosis in the Mediaeval West; 4. 'Light the Lamp Within You': A Recurring Esoteric Tradition; 5. 'People will be Gods': Russian Versions of Theosis; 6. 'The Via Regia': Deification in the Russian Diaspora; 7. One with God: From Academic Re-engagement to Popular Reception; 8. Afterword: Blank Pages.
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Norman Russell is Honorary Research Fellow at St Stephen's House, University of Oxford and Professor of Patristics and Byzantine Theology at the Istituto Teologico di Santa Eufemia di Calcedonia, of the Orthodox Exarchate of Italy. He is the author of acclaimed The Doctrine of Deification in the Greek Patristic Tradition (2005).
