Theosis

      Deification in Christian Theology

      Volume 2

      Princeton Theological Monograph Series 156

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      Theosis : deification in christian theology / edited by Vladimir Kharlamov.

      Princeton Theological Monograph Series 156

      xiv + 282 p. ; 23 cm. —Includes bibliographical references and index.

      isbn 13: 978-61097-070-9

      1. Deification (Christianity)—History of doctrines. I. Kharlamov, Vladimir. II. Title. III. Series.

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      Contributors

      Paul M. Collins (PhD, University of London) is the author of a number of books, including Partaking in Divine Nature: Deification and Communion (2010), Trinity: Guide for the Perplexed (2008), Christian Inculturation in India (2007), Context, Culture, and Worship: The Quest for Indian-ness (2006), Trinitarian Theology West and East: Karl Barth, the Cappadocian Fathers, and John Zizioulas (2001). He is a priest in the Church of England.

      Joel C. Elowsky (PhD, Drew) is Associate Professor at Concordia University Wisconsin and Research Director for the Center for Early African Christianity. He has served as the Research Director for the recently completed Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture (InterVarsity Press), and has published a number of books, most recently We Believe in the Holy Spirit (2009).

      Stephen Finlan (PhD, Durham) teaches at Salve Regina University, and has taught at Fordham and Drew Universities. He is the author of six academic books, including Problems With Atonement: The Origins of, and Controversy about, the Atonement Doctrine (2005) and The Family Metaphor in Jesus’ Teaching (2009). He is also the coeditor, with Vladimir Kharlamov, of Theosis: Deification in Christian Theology (2006).

      Boris Jakim is the foremost translator of Russian religious thought into English. He has translated works by S. L. Frank, Pavel Florensky, Vladimir Solovyov, Sergius Bulgakov, and Fyodor Dostoevsky.

      Vladimir Kharlamov (PhD, Drew) has taught at Fairleigh Dickinson University and Sioux Falls Seminary, the author of The Beauty of the Unity and the Harmony of the Whole: The Concept of Theosis in the Theology of Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite (2009), and coeditor, with Stephen Finlan, of Theosis: Deification in Christian Theology (2006).

      Mark Medley (PhD, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary) is Associate Professor of Christian Theology at the Baptist Seminary of Kentucky, former co-chair of the Constructive Theologies section for the Southeast Region of the AAR, co-chair of the Evangelical Catholic/Catholic Evangelical Consultation of the College Theology Society, and the author of Imago Trinitatis: Toward a Relational Understanding of Becoming Human (2002).

      Abbreviations

      ABBREVIATIONS FOR EDITIONS AND COLLECTIONS

      ABBREVIATIONS FOR PRIMARY WORKS

      Aetius

      Athanasius

      Athenagoras