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Theosis
Deification in Christian Theology
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Vladimir Kharlamov
Theosis
Deification in Christian Theology
Volume 2
Princeton Theological Monograph Series 156
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Theosis : deification in christian theology / edited by Vladimir Kharlamov.
Princeton Theological Monograph Series 156
xiv + 282 p. ; 23 cm. —Includes bibliographical references and index.
isbn 13: 978-61097-070-9
1. Deification (Christianity)—History of doctrines. I. Kharlamov, Vladimir. II. Title. III. Series.
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Contributors
Paul M. Collins (PhD, University of London) is the author of a number of books, including Partaking in Divine Nature: Deification and Communion (2010), Trinity: Guide for the Perplexed (2008), Christian Inculturation in India (2007), Context, Culture, and Worship: The Quest for Indian-ness (2006), Trinitarian Theology West and East: Karl Barth, the Cappadocian Fathers, and John Zizioulas (2001). He is a priest in the Church of England.
Joel C. Elowsky (PhD, Drew) is Associate Professor at Concordia University Wisconsin and Research Director for the Center for Early African Christianity. He has served as the Research Director for the recently completed Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture (InterVarsity Press), and has published a number of books, most recently We Believe in the Holy Spirit (2009).
Stephen Finlan (PhD, Durham) teaches at Salve Regina University, and has taught at Fordham and Drew Universities. He is the author of six academic books, including Problems With Atonement: The Origins of, and Controversy about, the Atonement Doctrine (2005) and The Family Metaphor in Jesus’ Teaching (2009). He is also the coeditor, with Vladimir Kharlamov, of Theosis: Deification in Christian Theology (2006).
Boris Jakim is the foremost translator of Russian religious thought into English. He has translated works by S. L. Frank, Pavel Florensky, Vladimir Solovyov, Sergius Bulgakov, and Fyodor Dostoevsky.
Vladimir Kharlamov (PhD, Drew) has taught at Fairleigh Dickinson University and Sioux Falls Seminary, the author of The Beauty of the Unity and the Harmony of the Whole: The Concept of Theosis in the Theology of Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite (2009), and coeditor, with Stephen Finlan, of Theosis: Deification in Christian Theology (2006).
Mark Medley (PhD, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary) is Associate Professor of Christian Theology at the Baptist Seminary of Kentucky, former co-chair of the Constructive Theologies section for the Southeast Region of the AAR, co-chair of the Evangelical Catholic/Catholic Evangelical Consultation of the College Theology Society, and the author of Imago Trinitatis: Toward a Relational Understanding of Becoming Human (2002).
Abbreviations
ABBREVIATIONS FOR EDITIONS AND COLLECTIONS
| ACW | Ancient Christian Writers: The Works of the Fathers in Translation. Mahwah, NJ: Paulist, 1946–. |
| ANF | The Ante-Nicene Fathers. Edited by Alexander Roberts and James Donaldson. 1885–1887. 10 vols. Reprint. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 1994. |
| CSCO | Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium. Louvain, Belgium, 1903–. |
| FC | Fathers of the Church: A New Translation. Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 1947–. |
| GCS | Die griechischen christlichen Schriftsteller der ersten Jahrhunderte. Berlin: Akademie, 1897–. |
| GNO | W. Jaeger, ed. Gregorii Nysseni Opera. Leiden: Brill, 1952–. |
| LCC | J. Baillie et al., eds. The Library of Christian Classics. 26 vols. Philadelphia: Westminster, 1953–1966. |
| LCL | Loeb Classical Library. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1912–. |
| LF | A Library of Fathers of the Holy Catholic Church Anterior to the Division of the East and West. Translated by members of the English Church. Oxford: John Henry Parker, 1838–1881. |
| NPNF | The Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers. 2 series. Edited by Philip Schaff. 1886–1889. 28 vols. Reprint. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 1994. |
| PG | Patrologiae Cursus Completus, Series Graeca. 166 vols. Edited by J. P. Migne. Paris, 1857–1886. |
| PL | Patrologiae Cursus Completus, Series Latina. 221 vols. Edited by J. P. Migne. Paris, 1844–1864. |
| Pusey | Pusey, P. E. Sancti Patris Nostri Cyrilli Archiepiscopi Alexandrini in D. Joannis Evangelium, 3 Vols. Oxford: Clarendon, 1872; Reprint. Brussels: Culture et Civilisation, 1965. |
| SC | Sources Chrétiennes. Edited by H. de Lubac, J. Daniélou, et al. Paris: Editions du Cerf, 1941–. |
| SVC | Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae |
| TEP | Theodore of Mopsuestia. Theodori episcopi Mopsuesteni: In epistolas b. Pauli commentarii. Edited by Henry Barclay Swete. 2 Vols. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1880–82. |
ABBREVIATIONS FOR PRIMARY WORKS
Aetius
| Synt. | Syntagmation |
Athanasius
| Ar. | Orationes tres adversus Arianos |
| De Inc. | De Incarnatione |
| De Inc. et c. Ar. | De Incarnatione et contra Arianos |
| De Syn. | De synodis Arimini in Italia et Seleuciae in Isauria |
| Ep. Epict. | Epistula ad Epictetum |
| Ep. Serap. | Epistulae quattuor ad Serapionem |
| Vit. Anton. | Vita Antonii |
Athenagoras
| Leg. | Legatio sive Supplicatio
|