Scrima Apophatic Anthropology

An English Translation
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-4632-3685-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, 259 Seiten

Reihe: Perspectives on Philosophy and Religious Thought

An English translation of André Scrima's 1952 work on Apophatic Anthropology. Pascalian in essence, the approach departs from the Augustinian roots of Western Christian theology and develops a Christian anthropology based on Eastern Orthodoxy. The endeavor of a human being to understand oneself does not lead, as in the case of Pascal, to identification with Jesus Christ’s suffering, but further, to an attempt of deification, theosis, in which the main concept is Incarnation. This attempt opens to man the possibility to conceive himself as interior to God. Man becomes therefore the physical and metaphysical bridge between creation and the uncreated, the only creature that bears the image of God.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Scrima, André

Weitere Mitwirkende

Gabor, Octavian

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Table of Contents (page 5)
- Preface (page 7)
- Translator's Note (page 13)
- The Apophatic Anthropology (page 15)
- The Plan of the Project (page 15)
- I. The Philosophical and Theological Significance of Anthropology (page 17)
- 1. Immanent Revelations (page 17)
- 2. Man's Image in the Conscience of Humanity (page 30)
- 3. Theology and Anthropology (page 55)
- II. Theological and Anthropological Apophaticism (page 64)
- 1. The Significance of Apophatic Theology (page 64)
- 2. Superessential Apophaticism (page 78)
- 3. The Foundations of Anthropological Apophaticism (page 108)
- 4. The Elements of a Synthesis (page 158)
- III. Homo Absconditus (page 170)
- 1. The Dimensions of Being (page 170)
- 2. The Hypostatic Image (page 175)
- Attempt to an Introduction to an Apophatic Orthodox Anthropology (page 177)
- Note (page 177)
- Forward (page 178)
- I. Man Searching for Himself (page 183)
- Texts from the Antim Monastery (page 191)
- I. Prolegomena to an Ontology of the Monastic Stage (page 192)
- II. Argument for a Meditation on the Vow of Virginity (page 218)
- III. The Spiritual Father and His Disciple (page 224)
- 1. The General Framework of the Problem (page 224)
- 2. The Meaning and the Unfolding of the Spiritual Father-Disciple Relationship (page 224)
- 3. What is a Spiritual Father to a Disciple? (page 225)
- IV. Thoughts Before an Icon (page 229)
- V. The Apocalypse of Job (page 237)
- Translator's Notes (page 251)