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876419
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Divine essence and divine energies : : ecumenical reflections on the presence of god in Eastern Orthodoxy /\ edited by Constantinos Athanasopoulos and Christoph Schneider.
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Cambridge :: James Clarke & Co.,, 2013.
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1 online resource (288 pages)
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022790012X
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: 1299484794
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: 9780227900123
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: 9781299484795
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9780227173862
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Includes bibliographical references.
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| Contents
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Front cover -- Title page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Beyond Agnosticism and Pantheism -- Christoph Schneider -- Chapter 1: The Concept of the Divine Energies -- David Bradshaw -- Chapter 2: St. Gregory Palamas as the Response of Orthodox Mystical Theology to (Neo- )Platonistand Aristotelian Metaphysics -- Constantinos Athanasopoulos -- Chapter 3: Pancreation Lost: The Fall of Theology -- Roy Clouser -- Chapter 4: The Woes of Originality: Discussing David Bradshaw's AristotelianJourney into Neo-Palamism -- Antoine Lévy OP -- Chapter 5: Striving for Participation: Palamite Analogy as Dialogical Syn-energy and Thomist Analogy as Emanational Similitude -- Nikolaos Loudovikos -- Chapter 6: The Significance of the Distinction between the Essence and Energies of God according to St. Basilthe Great -- Georgios Martzelos -- Chapter 7: Christianity and Platonism in East and West -- John Milbank -- Chapter 8: The Sense and Reference of the Essence and Energies -- N.N. Trakakis -- Chapter 9: The Distinction Between Essence and Energy According to Maximus the Confessor -- Metropolitan Vasilios (Karayiannis) of Constantia-Ammochostos -- Chapter 10: In Defence of the Essence/Energies Distinction: A Reply to Critics -- David Bradshaw -- Bibliography -- Notes on Contributors -- Back cover.
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| Abstract
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A composite book of essays from ten scholars, Divine Essence and Divine Energies provides a rich repository of diverse opinion about the essence-energy distinction in Orthodox Christianity - a doctrine which lies at the heart of the often-fraught fault line between East and West, and which, in this book, inspires a lively dialogue between the contributors. The contents of the book revolve around several key questions: In what way were the Aristotelian concepts of ousia and energeia used by the Church Fathers, and to what extent were their meanings modified in the light of the Christological an.
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Orthodox Eastern Church-- Theology.
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Orthodox Eastern Church.
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Christianity.
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Philosophy Religion.
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RELIGION-- Christian Rituals Practice-- General.
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RELIGION-- Christianity-- Orthodox.
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Religion.
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Theology.
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| Dewey Classification
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281.9
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| LC Classification
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BX320.3.D58 2013eb
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Athanasopoulos, Constantinos.
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Schneider, Christoph.
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