The material presented in this book is the first English translation of original work going back to 1970. The long evolution is understandable, due to the unprecedented nature of the project, especially before the work of John Zizioulas became known. Yannaras, using Martin Heidegger as his modern philosophical referent, and major Eastern fathers such as Gregory of Nyssa, John of Damascus, and Maximus the Confessor as ancient authorities and mentors, attempts to present such fundamental philosophical categories as Being and Person, and the relationship between them, in an Orthodox context. Hei... View More...
The material presented in this book is the first English translation of original work going back to 1970. The long evolution is understandable, due to the unprecedented nature of the project, especially before the work of John Zizioulas became known. Yannaras, using Martin Heidegger as his modern philosophical referent, and major Eastern fathers such as Gregory of Nyssa, John of Damascus, and Maximus the Confessor as ancient authorities and mentors, attempts to present such fundamental philosophical categories as Being and Person, and the relationship between them, in an Orthodox context. Hei... View More...
'God became man in order that man might become God,' or some variant, is one of the dominant themes of the Greek Fathers from St. Irenaeus forward, the exegetical development of the scriptural phrases 'you are gods, sons of the Most High, all of you' (Ps. 82:6) and 'that you might.become partakers of the divine nature' (2 Pet. 1:4). The doctrine of deification (theosis), human persons becoming divine by grace, became the cornerstone of the Orthodox doctrine of salvation, the goal of human cooperation with the sanctifying energies of God through the Holy Spirit in the Church. Describing the dev... View More...
'God became man in order that man might become God,' or some variant, is one of the dominant themes of the Greek Fathers from St. Irenaeus forward, the exegetical development of the scriptural phrases 'you are gods, sons of the Most High, all of you' (Ps. 82:6) and 'that you might.become partakers of the divine nature' (2 Pet. 1:4). The doctrine of deification (theosis), human persons becoming divine by grace, became the cornerstone of the Orthodox doctrine of salvation, the goal of human cooperation with the sanctifying energies of God through the Holy Spirit in the Church. Describing the dev... View More...
'God became man in order that man might become God,' or some variant, is one of the dominant themes of the Greek Fathers from St. Irenaeus forward, the exegetical development of the scriptural phrases 'you are gods, sons of the Most High, all of you' (Ps. 82:6) and 'that you might.become partakers of the divine nature' (2 Pet. 1:4). The doctrine of deification (theosis), human persons becoming divine by grace, became the cornerstone of the Orthodox doctrine of salvation, the goal of human cooperation with the sanctifying energies of God through the Holy Spirit in the Church. Describing the dev... View More...
