Visions of God and Ideas on Deification in Patristic Thought (Paperback, 1)

IntroductionPart I. What is the image of God?1. Martyrdom of Polycarp, Markus Vinzent 2. Growing like God: Some thoughts on Irenaeus of Lyons, Mark EdwardsPart II. Image and Eschatology. Deification 3. ‘Love never fails, not even in death’. Gregory of Nyssa on theosis, Elena Ene D-Vasilescu 4. Deification in the Alexandrian tradition, Mark Edwards 5. Not so alien and unnatural after all: the role of deification in Augustine’s sermons, Stanley P. Rosenberg6. Union with and likeness to God: Deification according to Dionysius the Areopagite, Filip Ivanovic7. Like a glowing sword. St Maximus on deification, Torstein Theodor TollefsenPart III. Image of God and Byzantine/Meta-Byzantine Icon 8. Communion with God and theology of the icon: a study of the Christological iconology of St. John of Damascus, Dimitrios Pallis9. The vision of God and the deification of man: the visual implications of theosis, Clemena Antonova BibliographyIndex