Faith, Reason, and Theosis (EPUB) von Aristotle Papanikolaou

Introduction: Faith, Reason, and Theosis | 1
Aristotle Papanikolaou and George E. Demacopoulos

PART I: THEOTIC EXISTENCE

Waking the Gods: Theosis as Reason’s Natural End | 15
David Bentley Hart

Does Aquinas Have the Orthodox Concept of Theosis? | 37
Jean Porter

Deification as Christification and Human Becoming | 72
Philip Kariatlis

Theosis as Kenosis: The Paradox of Holy Intimacy in the Theology of Hans Urs von Balthasar | 93
Carolyn Chau

Martin Luther on Faith and Union with God: Speculations on Theosis | 112
Kirsi Stjerna

Differentiation as Disfigurement: A Womanist Polemic against the Co-optation of the Divine Essence | 133
Michele E. Watkins

PART II: THEOTIC KNOWING

Revelation, Reason, and Holiness: A Wesleyan Perspective | 159
William J. Abraham

The Ambiguous Meanings of Theosis in Modern and Postmodern Discourse | 176
Andrew Prevot

Speculation and Theosis in Vladimir Lossky and Meister Eckhart | 198
Robert Glenn Davis

Knowing through Unknowing: The Qualified Necessity of Human Reason in Dionysius | 218
Peter Bouteneff

Knowing in Theosis: A Byzantine Mystical Theological Approach | 231
Ashley Purpura

Deification in Evagrius Ponticus and the Transmission of the Kephalaia Gnostika in Syriac and Arabic | 251
Stephen J. Davis

The Embodied Logos: Reason, Knowledge, and Relation | 267
Rowan Williams

Acknowledgments | 293

List of Contributors | 295

Index | 301