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The anthropology of St Gregory Palamas : The image of God, the spiritual senses, and the human body / Alexandros Chouliaras.
Loaned to Another Library BT741.3 .C46 2020
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Chouliaras, Alexandros, author.
- Series:
- Studia traditionis theologiae ; 38.
- Studia Traditionis Theologiae (STT) ; 38
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gregory Palamas, Saint, 1296-1359.
- Gregory Palamas.
- Human body--Religious aspects.
- Human body.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 243 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Turnhout, Belgium : Brepols, 2020.
- Summary:
- How are we to regard our body? As a prison, an enemy, or, maybe, an ally? Is it something bad that needs to be humiliated and extinguished, or should one see it as a huge blessing, that deserves attention and care? Is the body an impediment to human experience of God? Or, rather, does the body have a crucial role in this very experience? Alexandros Chouliaras' book "The Anthropology of St Gregory Palamas: the Image of God, the Spiritual Senses, and the Human Body" argues that the fourteenth-century monk, theologian, and bishop Gregory Palamas has interesting and persuasive answers to offer to all these questions, and that his anthropology has a great deal to offer to Christian life and theology today. Amongst this book's contributions are these: for Palamas, the human is superior to the angels concerning the image of God for specific reasons, all linked to his corporeality. Secondly, the spiritual senses refer not only to the soul, but also to the body. However, in Paradise the body will be absorbed by the spirit, and acquire a totally spiritual aspect. But this does not at all entail a devaluing of the body. On the contrary, St Gregory ascribes a high value to the human body. Finally, central to Palamas' theology is a strong emphasis on the human potentiality for union with God, theosis: that is, the passage from image to likeness. And herein lies, perhaps, his most important gift to the anthropological concerns of our epoch.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9782503589411
- 2503589413
- OCLC:
- 1191848830
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