Apophatic Anthropology An English Translation

An English translation of André Scrima's 1952 work on Apophatic Anthropology. Pascalian in essence, the approach departs from the Augustinian roots of Western Christian theology and develops a Christian anthropology based on Eastern Orthodoxy. The endeavor of a human being to understand oneself...

Ausführliche Beschreibung

Gespeichert in:
1. Verfasser:
Scrima, André
Format:
Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:
Englisch
Veröffentlicht:
Piscataway, NJ Gorgias Press [2016]
Zusammenfassung:
An English translation of André Scrima's 1952 work on Apophatic Anthropology. Pascalian in essence, the approach departs from the Augustinian roots of Western Christian theology and develops a Christian anthropology based on Eastern Orthodoxy. The endeavor of a human being to understand oneself does not lead, as in the case of Pascal, to identification with Jesus Christ’s suffering, but further, to an attempt of deification, theosis, in which the main concept is Incarnation. This attempt opens to man the possibility to conceive himself as interior to God. Man becomes therefore the physical and metaphysical bridge between creation and the uncreated, the only creature that bears the image of God
Umfang:
1 online resource (259 p.)
Schriftenreihe:
Perspectives on Philosophy and Religious Thought
ISBN:
9781463236854
DOI:
10.31826/9781463236854
Schlagworte:
Deification (Christianity)
Negative theology
Theological anthropology
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