Author: George Leonard PrestigePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fathers of the church
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
God in Patristic Thought
Author: George Leonard PrestigePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fathers of the church
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
The Suffering of the Impassible God
Author: Paul L. GavrilyukPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0191533548
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 223
Book Description
The Suffering of the Impassible God provides a major reconsideration of the issue of divine suffering and divine emotions in the early Church Fathers. Patristic writers are commonly criticized for falling prey to Hellenistic philosophy and uncritically accepting the claim that God cannot suffer or feel emotions. Gavrilyuk shows that this view represents a misreading of evidence. In contrast, he construes the development of patristic thought as a series of dialectical turning points taken to safeguard the paradox of God's voluntary and salvific suffering in the Incarnation.
God in Patristic Thought
Author: George Leonard PrestigePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fathers of the church, Greek
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
God in Patristic Thought
Author: George Leonard PrestigePublisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1556357796
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
This book assembles the evidence for what the Greek Fathers, the men whose contructive thought underlies the creeds, really thought and taught about the nature of God. It shows that they were original thinkers, with a profound reverence for the text of the Scriptures, and minds keenly tranined to discuss what ultimate truths were expressed in the scriptural text and what reality should be ascribed to Christian religious experience. The results indicate that a good deal which is assumed in current theological text-books needs to be revised. The Fathers had to reconcile monotheism with faith in a Trinity of divine Persons. In the process, they pursued many lines of inquiry, often only to discard them after trial, but after following various clues and making various intellectual adventures they reached a solution of the problem, which was both true to their data and philosophically reasonable. Though the bulk of the book is concerned with the third and fourth centuries, during which the creeds were in the process of formulation, the story is carried down to the eighth century where the progress of original thought came to a standstill. It is shown that a great change came over the philosophical tradition during the sixth century, and owing to the consequent growth of formalism, a genuine outbreak of tritheism occurred. The book ends with the account of how this outbreak was met and overcome, largely through the efforts of a thinker whose very name is unknown, and whose book has only survived under the name of another man.
Visions of God and Ideas on Deification in Patristic Thought
Author: Mark EdwardsPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1315439581
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 373
Book Description
This volume illustrates the complexity and variety of early Christian thought on the subject of the image of God as a theological concept, and the difficulties that arise even in the interpretation of particular authors who gave a cardinal place to the image of God in their expositions of Christian doctrine. The first part illustrates both the presence and the absence of the image of God in the earliest Christian literature; the second examines various studies in deification, both implicit and explicit; the third explores the relation between iconography and the theological notion of the image
God in patristic thought
Author: George L. PrestigeGod in Patristic Thought by G.L. Prestige
Author: George Leonard PrestigePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fathers of the church
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
Language for God in Patristic Tradition
Author: Mark SheridanPublisher: InterVarsity Press
ISBN: 0830840648
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Mark Sheridan, an expert in early Christianity, explores how ancient Christian theologians interpreted Scripture in order to address the problem of attributing human characteristics and emotions to God.
Melanchthon and Patristic Thought: The Doctrines of Christ and Grace, the Trinity and the Creation
Author: MeijeringPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004474897
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Author: Pavel Gavrili͡uk