The Oxford Handbook of Deification

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Contents
Acknowledgments
List of Contributors
Introduction: Theses on Deification
PART I CULTURAL AND SCRIPTURAL ROOTS
1. Ancient Greek Cultural and Philosophical Background
4. The Pauline and Petrine Letters
5. The Synoptics and the Johannine Literature
PART II SOUNDINGS IN THE HISTORY OF CHRISTIAN THEOLOGY
EARLY
7. Athanasius of Alexandria and the Cappadocian Fathers
8. Deification in Macarius, Evagrius, and Dionysius
9. The Syriac Fathers
10. The Latin Fathers and Augustine
11. Cyril of Alexandria
12. “Man Became God to the Degree that God Became Man”: Maximus the Confessor and the Doctrine of Deification
MEDIEVAL
13. The Early Medieval Latin West
14. Symeon the New Theologian and Byzantine Monasticism
15. The Cistercians and the Victorines
16. Aquinas and Bonaventure
17. St. Gregory Palamas and Palamism
18. Western Vernacular Mystics
MODERN
19. Martin Luther and the Early Lutherans
20. John Calvin and Early Reformed Theology
21. Pierre de Bérulle and François de Sales
23. Pietism, the Moravian Brethren, and the Wesleys
24. St. Nikodimos of the Holy Mountain, St. Makarios of Corinth, and the Philokalia
25. Jacob Boehme, German Idealism, and Romanticism
29. Karl Barth’s Critique of Deification
31. Recent Anglican and Protestant Theology
32. Contemporary Greek Orthodox Theologians
PART III SYSTEMATIC CONNECTIONS
33. Deification and the Metaphysics of Participation
34. Deification and the Trinity
35. Deification and Christology
36. Deification and Ecclesiology
37. Deification and Theological Anthropology
38. Deification, Justification, and Sanctification: An Early Christian Philosophical Approach
39. Deification in Sacraments, Liturgy, and Prayer
40. Deification and Ecology
41. Deification and Eschatology
42. Deification and Ecumenical Dialogues
43. Dialogues with Jews and Muslims
44. Christian Deification: Dialogues with the Dharma Religions
Index