Eckhart's Apophatictheology: Knowing the Unknowable God

Vladimir Lossky's posthumously published masterwork is now made available in English for the first time. Eckhart's Apophatic Theology is the culmination of a long process, whereby the renowned Orthodox philosopher and theologian embraced the ways of thinking of a thirteenth-century German mendicant and mystic. While refusing to simplify Eckhart's theology to a system or single motif, Lossky explores in detail the various ramifications of Eckhart's insistence on the ineffability of God. Is God to be regarded as 'being', or the 'One', or 'Intellect'? Does God's pure expression of each of these preclude the others? Framed by six key statements about God's essence, Lossky lays out Eckhart's approach to this dilemma. His understanding of the problem, guided by careful engagement with a multitude of sources, is exhaustive. Scholars will welcome this eagerly-anticipated translation.

Lossky, Vladimir

Religion & Spirituality

James Clarke

SUTTON, JONATHAN

Sophrony, Monk

The Mystical Theology of the Eastern Church

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Christian Books & Bibles

Theology

James Clarke & Co., LTD

The Eastern Tradition ."..has never made a sharp distinction between mysticism and theology; between personal experience of the divine mysteries and the dogma affirmed by the Church." The term "mystical theology" denotes that which is accessible yet inaccessible; those things understood yet surpassing all knowledge.

James Clarke Lutterworth

Vladimir Lossky established himself as one of the most brilliant Orthodox scholars in the years between his departure from Russia in 1923 and his death in 1958. His uncompromising faithfulness to scriptural and patristic tradition, coupled with his constant concern for an articulate Orthodox witness in the West, make his works indispensable for an understanding of the theology of the Eastern Church today. Here, in twelve essays, he explores the implications of the Orthodox understanding of man's destiny - communion in love with triune God. Concerned with the fundamental questions of theology, Lossky addresses the following: can we really know God? How are we to understand the relation of creation to the Creator? Where is it that we are to find the heart of the Christian message? In the process of answering questions such as these, the author shows the doctrinal issues are not just abstract propositions for theological debate but affect the whole of Church life.

In the image and likeness of God

Mowbrays

June 1940: Vladimir Lossky joined the massive exodus from Paris before the advancing German Army. In his diary of the upheaval, this theologian of Orthodox mysticism reflects on civilisation, war and the place of Christianity in East and West.

Seven Days on the Roads of France: June 1940

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

Lutterworth Pr

Seven Days on the Roads of France: June 1940 (Orthodox Christian Profiles, 2)

St Vladimirs Seminary Pr

In this book, a revised, annotated, and expanded second edition of Théologie dogmatique, edited in the French by Olivier Clément and Michel Stavrou, readers encounter Lossky s classroom lectures on dogmatic theology. Lossky confronts the great questions of theology: How can we know God? How is the Creator related to his creation? What is the vocation of human beings, created in God s image? These questions are understood in light of the two great mysteries of the faith: the Trinity and the incarnation of the Son of God. In Lossky s articulation, these are not abstract theories, but living and vivid realities. Emphasizing the thought of the Fathers, Lossky actualizes the latter in a creative fashion through a critical reflection namely on the theme of the person attempting through an approach that is faithful and free, to express the elements of the ecclesial tradition in a contemporary language. In the wake of the Fathers, Lossky linked dogma narrowly to the spiritual life, rejecting the false and ruinous split between spirituality and theology, hence this term mystical theology (from the Introduction). This dynamic tension between theology and spirituality is maintained in the Orthodox Church, which, as Lossky put it, is not an element of world history among so many others, but the very center of the universe and its history, the center in connection with which the historic process in its entirety as well as each particular destiny receives its definitive meaning. Although the Church is in the world, she is not a constituent part of it, for she contains what the world cannot contain: the fullness of uncreated grace.

Dogmatic Theology: Creation, God's Image in Man, and the Redeeming Work of the Trinity

SPCK Publishing

The relevance of Orthodoxy in the whole ecumenical movement is becoming ever more evident. Standing apart from the controversies which have embittered the history of Western Christendom, the Christian East has preserved a living continuity with the early Church. It is here that the significance of its witness, in itself disinterested, is to be found, now that the ecumenical movement is developing "ecumenism in time," and is searching for those churchly roots which are common to all Christians. Orthodoxy, which unites a sacramental view of the Church with a sense of personal liberty in the Holy Spirit, can open up unexpected perspectives in the Catholic-Protestant dialogue. May not its spirituality, which sees the victory of Christ over death and hell as avowing a real transfiguration of man and the universe, be of vital assistance at the movement when Western man is exploring the depths both of human anguish, and of the material world, and is becoming dangerously tempted by the psychic techniques of the non-Christian East? The annihilation of distance and the dispersion of numerous Orthodox in Western Europe and America are signs of the times which we cannot ignore. It is essential that the Orthodox, who up till now have too seldom expressed themselves in Western languages, should be able to do so freely. It is in this way that the idea of the present collection was formed.

The Vision of God

Vladimir Lossky established himself as one of the most brilliant Orthodox scholars in the years between his departure from Russia in 1923 and his death in 1958. His uncompromising faithfulness to scriptural and patristic tradition, coupled with his constant concern for an articulate Orthodox witness in the West, make his works indispensable for an understanding of the theology of the Eastern Church today. Here, in twelve essays, he explores the implications of the Orthodox understanding of man's destiny - communion in love with triune God. 
Concerned with the fundamental questions of theology, Lossky addresses the following: can we really know God? How are we to understand the relation of creation to the Creator? Where is it that we are to find the heart of the Christian message? In the process of answering questions such as these, the author shows the doctrinal issues are not just abstract propositions for theological debate but affect the whole of Church life.

In the Image and Likeness of God (English and French Edition)

Erickson, John H.

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Eckhart's Apophatictheology: Knowing the Unknowable God

Eckhart's Apophatictheology: Knowing the Unknowable God

The Mystical Theology of the Eastern Church

The Mystical Theology of the Eastern Church

In the image and likeness of God

Seven Days on the Roads of France: June 1940

Seven Days on the Roads of France: June 1940 (Orthodox Christian Profiles, 2)

Dogmatic Theology: Creation, God's Image in Man, and the Redeeming Work of the Trinity

The Vision of God

In the Image and Likeness of God (English and French Edition)