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Record Nr.

UNINA9910826680203321

Autore

Scrima André <1925-2000, >

Titolo

Apophatic anthropology : an English translation / / by André Scrima ; translated by Octavian Gabor

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Piscataway, New Jersey : , : Gorgias Press, , [2016]

©2016

ISBN

1-4632-3685-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (259 pages)

Collana

Perspectives on philosophy and religious thought ; ; 17

Disciplina

233

Soggetti

Deification (Christianity)

Theological anthropology

Negative theology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Preface / Alexandrescu, Vlad -- Translator's Note / Gabor, Octavian -- The Apophatic Anthropology -- Attempt to an Introduction to an Apophatic Orthodox Anthropology -- Texts from the Antim Monastery -- Translator's Notes

Sommario/riassunto

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.