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Being with God: Trinity, Apophaticism, and Divine-Human Communion
Contributor(s): Papanikolaou, Aristotle (Author)

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 ISBN: 0268038309     ISBN-13: 9780268038304
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
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Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: February 2006
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Annotation: Analyzes the relation between apophaticism, trinitarian theology, and divine-human communion through a critical comparison of the work of the influentian Eastern Orthodox theologians Vladimir Lossky (1903-58) and John Zizioulas (1931-).
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BISAC Categories:
- Religion | Christianity - Orthodox
- Religion | Christian Theology - Systematic
- Religion | Christian Theology - Anthropology
Dewey: 231.092
LCCN: 2005036071
Physical Information: 0.92" H x 6.56" W x 9.4" L (1.08 lbs) 248 pages
Themes:
- Religious Orientation - Christian
Features: Annotated, Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
 
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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. 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.

Contributor Bio(s): Papanikolaou, Aristotle: - Aristotle Papanikolaou is professor of theology and co-founding director of the Orthodox Christian Studies Center at Fordham University. He is the author and co-editor of a number of books, including The Mystical as Political: Democracy and Non-Radical Orthodoxy (University of Notre Dame Press, 2012).
 
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