Penetration of Fire into Iron: The Sense and the Usage Mode of This Metaphor for Description of Theosis in the Byzantine Theological Literature
I consider the ways whereby the Stoic natural philosophical paradigm of total blending, through the example of penetration of fire into iron, was naturalized by the Early Christian and Byzantine theologians who intended to display the penetration of the divine into the created and the conjunction o...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
[2019]
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Scrinium
Year: 2019, Volume: 15, Issue: 1, Pages: 143-162 |
| IxTheo Classification: | KAB Church history 30-500; early Christianity KAC Church history 500-1500; Middle Ages KBK Europe (East) KDF Orthodox Church NBB Doctrine of Revelation NBE Anthropology |
| Further subjects: | B
impartation of properties
B Participation B total blending B Theosis B Recognition |
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| Summary: | I consider the ways whereby the Stoic natural philosophical paradigm of total blending, through the example of penetration of fire into iron, was naturalized by the Early Christian and Byzantine theologians who intended to display the penetration of the divine into the created and the conjunction of the created with the divine, with the condition that the created does not dissolve in divine but remains within its own nature being penetrated by the properties of deity. |
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| ISSN: | 1817-7565 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Scrinium
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/18177565-00151P10 |