The mystical tradition of the Eastern Church
Subtitle: studies in patristics, liturgy, and practice
By: edited by Sergey Trostyanskiy, Jess Gilbert
Series: Gorgias Eastern Christian studies -- 56; Gorgias Eastern Christianity studies -- 56.
Publisher: Gorgias Press LLC
Published: 2019
Place of publication: Piscataway, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 266
ISBN-13: 9781463240608
Copyright date: 2019
Subjects: Mysticism; Orthodox Eastern Church; Doctrines; Doctrinal Theology
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : mysticism and its historical manifestations / Sergey Trostyanskiy, Jess Gilbert; title: The relation between the incomprehensibility of God and the naming of God in the theology of pseudo-Dionysius / Theodore Damian; title: Toward an understanding of Maximus the Confessor's mystical theology of deification : the spiritual Sabbath / eighth day sequence in Two Hundred chapters on Theology / Jess Gilbert; title: Mystical theology in the writings of Gregory of Nyssa and Dionysius Areopagite / Eirini Artemi, Christos Terezis; title: Analogy in the mystical theology of Gregory of Nyssa : transcending negation and affirmation / Robert F. Fortuin; title: Recapitulative reversal and the restoration of humanity in St. Irenaeus / Don Springer; title: Kindling divine fire : the mystical sayings of St. Syncletica / V.K. McCarty; title: The kingdom of the holy Trinity and the movement of a community in the sacrificial spirit of Christ : the importance of Father Dumitru Stăniloae's mystical and ascetic vision of the holy liturgy / Ciprian Streza; title: The sacraments of the church : basis of spirituality, building blocks of the kingdom / Philip Zymaris; title: The mystery of representation : Theodore the Studite on seeing the invisible / Sergey Trostyanskiy; title: Understanding my avatar : cyberbeing, bio-digital personhood, and fictional transcendences from an Orthodox perspective / Inti Yanes-Fernandez; title: A theory of practice : a meditation on practice itself / Mark W. Flory; title: The prayer of the heart as method of cognitive behavioral psychotherapy / Cameron McCabe; title: Orthopraxis and theosis : the role of ritual in the training of the mind / Anthony Perkins