Deification in the Latin patristic tradition
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Deification in the Latin patristic tradition
（CUA studies in early Christianity）
The Catholic University of America Press, 2019
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents of Works
- Making worshipers into gods : deification in the Latin liturgy / Jared Ortiz
- Dying to become gods : deification in the Passion of Perpetua and Felicity / Thomas Heffernan
- Sequestered in Christ : deification in Tertullian / Mark A. Frisius
- After the fashion of God : deification in Cyprian / Benjamin Safranski
- Loaning and borrowing : deification in novatian / James L. Papandrea
- Making man manifest : deification in Hilary of Poitiers / Janet Sidaway
- Beyond carnal cogitations : deification in Ambrose of Milan / Fr. Brian Dunkle, SJ
- Rebirth into a new man : deification in Jerome / Vít Hušek
- "We shall be that seventh day" : deification in Augustine / Ron Haflidson
- Between empire and ecclesia : deification in Peter Chrysologus / Fr. David Meconi, SJ
- The wonderful exchange : deification in Leo the Great / Daniel Keating
- Every happy man is a god : deification in Boethius / Michael Wiitala
- Beholding Christ in the other and in the self : deification in Benedict of Nursia and Gregory the Great / Fr. Luke Dysinger, OSB
- A common Christian tradition : deification in the Greek and Latin fathers / Norman Russell
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It has become a commonplace to say that the Latin Fathers did not really hold a doctrine of deification. Indeed, it is often asserted that Western theologians have neglected this teaching, that their occasional references to it are borrowed from the Greeks, and that the Latins have generally reduced the rich biblical and Greek Patristic understanding of salvation to a narrow view of redemption. The essays in this volume challenge this common interpretation by exploring, often for the first time, the role this doctrine plays in a range of Latin Patristic authors.
The introductory essay on the Latin liturgy shows the wide-ranging use of deification themes in Latin worship, while the last one comparing the Greek and Latin Fathers provides the first serious study of the East and West's understanding of deification in light of substantial evidence. The essays in between explore the theology of deification in Perpetua and Felicity, Tertullian, Cyprian, Novatian, Hilary, Ambrose, Jerome, Augustine, Peter Chrysologus, Leo the Great, Boethius, Benedict and Gregory. Together, these essays demonstrate that deification is a native part of early Latin theology which was consistently and creatively employed.
This volume on deification in the Latin Patristic tradition will be the beginning of a long-overdue conversation. It promises to stimulate further inquiry into the place deification holds in the grammar of Latin Patristic thought and its relation to the Greek tradition.
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