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Kenosis in Theosis: An Exploration of Balthasar's Theology of Deification
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Nhà xuất bản: Pickwick Publications
Nơi xuất bản: USA
Năm xuất bản: 2020
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Ngôn ngữ: Tiếng Anh
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Of all the great themes in the theology of the Church there is none that encapsulates the gospel message as well as “deification.” It took me many years as a pastor, and later as a theologian, to grasp this. Only after wading through various streams of atonement theories, theologies of social justice, and spiritual treatises did I finally come to realize that they all led to the ocean of meaning distilled in the fundamental truth that God desires us to participate in His life—indeed to partake of His very nature (2 Pet 1:4). Thereafter I gained a deeper appreciation of the fact that being nobly created in the “image of God” (Gen 1:26) is only the beginning of understanding the meaning of the human person and Christian existence. For that initial gift from God implies a corresponding purpose and even more magnificent gift that is often overlooked: to attain God’s likeness through grace so that we may become fully human and fulfill our destiny as mediators between the created and uncreated. We are designed to live eternally in God’s presence, continually growing in love and thereby drawing together with us the entire cosmos into divine life. The doctrine of deification reveals, like nothing else can, that God is both our never-ending End and ever-new Beginning.
1 Introduction | 1
2 Defining Theosis and Kenosis | 9
3 Balthasar’s Approach and Method | 28
4 The Analogy of Being | 41
5 Theosis in the West and East | 50
6 Knowledge and Mystery | 64
7 The Cleft between the Created and Uncreated | 73
8 Jesus Christ as the Logic of the Cosmos | 89
9 Holy Saturday | 112
10 In the Image of the Trinity | 136
11 Synergy as the Way of Deification | 161
12 The Exploding of the “I” | 180
13 Conclusion | 201
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