Theosis as Kenosis: The Paradox of Holy Intimacy in the Theology of Hans Urs von Balthasar

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction: Faith, Reason, and Theosis 1
4. Part I: Theotic Existence
5. Waking the Gods: Theosis as Reason’s Natural End 15
6. Does Aquinas Have the Orthodox Concept of Theosis? 37
7. Deification as Christification and Human Becoming 72
8. Theosis as Kenosis: The Paradox of Holy Intimacy in the Theology of Hans Urs von Balthasar 93
9. Martin Luther on Faith and Union with God: Speculations on Theosis 112
10. Differentiation as Disfigurement: A Womanist Polemic against the Co-optation of the Divine Essence 133
11. Part II: Theotic Knowing
12. Revelation, Reason, and Holiness: A Wesleyan Perspective 159
13. The Ambiguous Meanings of Theosis in Modern and Postmodern Discourse 176
14. Speculation and Theosis in Vladimir Lossky and Meister Eckhart 198
15. Knowing through Unknowing: The Qualified Necessity of Human Reason in Dionysius 218
16. Knowing in Theosis: A Byzantine Mystical Theological Approach 231
17. Deification in Evagrius Ponticus and the Transmission of the Kephalaia Gnostika in Syriac and Arabic 251
18. The Embodied Logos: Reason, Knowledge, and Relation 267
19. Acknowledgments 293
20. List of Contributors 295
21. Index 301