Analogical identities
Subtitle: the creation of the Christian self, beyond sprirituality and mysticism in the Patristic era
By: Nikolaos Loudovikos
Series: Studia traditionis theologiae : explorations in early and medieval theology -- 28; Studia traditionis theologiae -- 28.
Publisher: Brepols Publishers
Published: 2019
Place of publication: Turnhout
Language: eng
Number of pages: 386
ISBN-13: 9782503578156
Copyright date: 2019
Subjects: Self; Christianity; Spirituality; Mysticism; History; Philosophical theology; Early church
Description: "A book about the possibility of retrieving a concept of selfhood from Patristic theology, beyond the dichotomies of mind and body, or person and nature. Is it possible for nihilism and an ontology of personhood as will-to-power to be incubated in the womb of Christian Mysticism? Is it possible that the modern ontology of power, which constitutes the core of western metaphysics, has a theological grounding? Has Nietzsche reversed Plato or, more likely, Augustine and Origen, re-fashioning in a secular framework the very essence of their ontology? Is there a non-ecstatic understanding of Christian selfhood? Patristic theology seems to provide us with an alternative understanding of selfhood, beyond what has been referred to as 'Christian Platonism'. This book strives to decipher, retrieve, and re-embody the underlying mature Patristic concept of selfhood, beyond the dichotomies of mind and body, or person and nature."-- Back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 357-373) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Part 1. The meaning of spiritual being. Augustine and Origen: a study of the presuppositions of Western and Eastern spirituality, and some modern repercussions; title: Augustine, Origen, and the person as will to power: the ontology of power; title: Part 2. On will and nature, on person and consubstantiality. Maximus the Confessor's theology of the will and the complete selfhood; title: Symeon the new theologian and the eschatological ontology of the nature of creation; title: The neo-Platonic root of angst and the theology of the real; title: World and existence, nature and person: the being of self and the meaning of its consubstantial universality; title: Part 3. Concluding discussion. Beyond spirituality and mysticism: the poiesis/creation of the self as an analogical identity; title: Appendix 1. Person instead of grace and dictated otherness: John Zizioulas' final theological position; title: Appendix 2. Dialogical nature, enousion person, and non-ecstatic will in St Maximus the Confessor: the conclusion of a long debate; title: Appendix 3. An Aquinas for the future.