This volume illustrates the complexity and variety of early Christian thought on the subject of the image of God as a theological concept, and the difficulties that arise even in the interpretation of particular authors who gave a cardinal place to the image of God in their expositions of Christian doctrine. The first part illustrates both the p
This volume illustrates the complexity and variety of early Christian thought on the subject of the image of God as a theological concept, and the difficulties that arise even in the interpretation of particular authors who gave a cardinal place to the image of God in their expositions of Christian doctrine. The first part illustrates both the p
Mark Edwards is Professor of Early Christian Studies at the University of Oxford, UK. Elena Ene D- Vasilescu is a Research Fellow at the University of Oxford, UK and teaches in the fields of Patristics, History of the Church, and Byzantine Church Art.
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Introduction Part I. What is the image of God? 1. Martyrdom of Polycarp, Markus Vinzent 2. Growing like God: Some thoughts on Irenaeus of Lyons, Mark Edwards Part II. Image and Eschatology. Deification 3. 'Love never fails, not even in death'. Gregory of Nyssa on theôsis, Elena Ene D-Vasilescu 4. Deification in the Alexandrian tradition, Mark Edwards 5. Not so alien and unnatural after all: the role of deification in Augustine's sermons, Stanley P. Rosenberg 6. Union with and likeness to God: Deification according to Dionysius the Areopagite, Filip Ivanovic 7. Like a glowing sword. St Maximus on deification, Torstein Theodor Tollefsen Part III. Image of God and Byzantine/Meta-Byzantine Icon 8. Communion with God and theology of the icon: a study of the Christological iconology of St. John of Damascus, Dimitrios Pallis 9. The vision of God and the deification of man: the visual implications of theôsis, Clemena Antonova Bibliography Index
Introduction Part I. What is the image of God? 1. Martyrdom of Polycarp, Markus Vinzent 2. Growing like God: Some thoughts on Irenaeus of Lyons, Mark Edwards Part II. Image and Eschatology. Deification 3. 'Love never fails, not even in death'. Gregory of Nyssa on theôsis, Elena Ene D-Vasilescu 4. Deification in the Alexandrian tradition, Mark Edwards 5. Not so alien and unnatural after all: the role of deification in Augustine's sermons, Stanley P. Rosenberg 6. Union with and likeness to God: Deification according to Dionysius the Areopagite, Filip Ivanovic 7. Like a glowing sword. St Maximus on deification, Torstein Theodor Tollefsen Part III. Image of God and Byzantine/Meta-Byzantine Icon 8. Communion with God and theology of the icon: a study of the Christological iconology of St. John of Damascus, Dimitrios Pallis 9. The vision of God and the deification of man: the visual implications of theôsis, Clemena Antonova Bibliography Index
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