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Being With God - Trinity, Apophaticism, and Divine-Human Communion (Paperback, Annotated edition)
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The central task of Being With God is an analysis of the relation
between apophaticism, trinitarian theology, and divine-human
communion through a critical comparison of the trinitarian
theologies of the Eastern Orthodox theologians Vladimir Lossky
(1903-58) and John Zizioulas (1931- ), arguably two of the most
influential Orthodox theologians of the past century. These two
theologians identify as the heart and center of all theological
discourse the realism of divine-human communion, which is often
understood in terms of the familiar Orthodox concept of theosis, or
divinization. The Incarnation, according to Lossky and Zizioulas,
is the event of a real divine-human communion that is made
accessible to all; God has become human so that all may participate
fully in the divine life. Aristotle Papanikolaou shows how an
ontology of divine-human communion is at the center of both
Lossky's and Zizioulas's theological projects. He also shows how,
for both theologians, this core belief is used as a
self-identifying marker against "Western" theologies. Papanikolaou
maintains, however, that Lossky and Zizioulas hold profoundly
different views on how to conceptualize God as the Trinity. Their
key difference is over the use of apophaticism in theology in
general and especially the relation of apophaticism to the doctrine
of the Trinity. For Lossky, apophaticism is the central
precondition for a trinitarian theology; for Zizioulas,
apophaticism has a much more restricted role in theological
discourse, and the God experienced in the eucharist is not the God
beyond being but the immanent life of the trinitarian God.
Papanikolaou provides readers with a richer understanding of
contemporary Orthodox theology through his analysis of the
consensus and debate between two leading Orthodox theologians.
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