Apophatic Anthropology
An English Translation
Octavian Gabor author André Scrima author
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Gorgias Press
Published:29th Jun '16
Currently unavailable, currently targeted to be due back around 2nd December 2024, but could change
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.
ISBN: 9781463205652
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259 pages