Deification in the Latin patristic tradition /edited by Jared Ortiz.

Deification in the Latin patristic tradition /edited by Jared Ortiz. - Washington, D.C. : The Catholic University of America Press, (c)2019. - 1 online resource (ix, 313 pages) - CUA studies in early Christianity .

Includes bibliographies and index.

Making worshipers into gods : deification in the Latin liturgy / Dying to become gods : deification in the Passion of Perpetua and Felicity / Sequestered in Christ : deification in Tertullian / After the fashion of God : deification in Cyprian / Loaning and borrowing : deification in novatian / Making man manifest : deification in Hilary of Poitiers / Beyond carnal cogitations : deification in Ambrose of Milan / Rebirth into a new man : deification in Jerome / "We shall be that seventh day" : deification in Augustine / Between empire and ecclesia : deification in Peter Chrysologus / The wonderful exchange : deification in Leo the Great / Every happy man is a god : deification in Boethius / Beholding Christ in the other and in the self : deification in Benedict of Nursia and Gregory the Great / A common Christian tradition : deification in the Greek and Latin fathers / Jared Ortiz -- Thomas Heffernan -- Mark A. Frisius -- Benjamin Safranski -- James L. Papandrea -- Janet Sidaway -- Fr. Brian Dunkle, SJ -- Vít Hušek -- Ron Haflidson -- Fr. David Meconi, SJ -- Daniel Keating -- Michael Wiitala -- Fr. Luke Dysinger, OSB -- Norman Russell.

"Contributors to this volume refute the widely held perception that the doctrine of deification primarily belonged in the Eastern Church, and that the Western Church reduced the rich biblical and Greek patristic understanding of salvation to a narrow view of redemption. To the contrary, these essays provide evidence of the wide-ranging use of deification themes in major Latin patristic sources, showing that deification was a native part of early Latin theology that was consitently and creatively employed"--



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Deification (Christianity)
Christian literature, Early--Latin authors--History and criticism.


Electronic Books.

BT767 / .D454 2019