{"title":"Becoming Human: Deification in the Image of Jesus Christ","authors":"C. Kavin Rowe","doi":"10.1111/ijst.12627","DOIUrl":"10.1111/ijst.12627","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43284,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Systematic Theology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-01-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48333434","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
One of the really significant features of Khaled Anatolios' s groundbreaking study is that it obliges us to think more clearly about what the divine image is that is restored or liberated in the process of our redemption – our theosis. That this is pre-eminently the image of ‘filial’ love and intimacy is rightly at the centre of this discussion: to be ‘deified’ is to be renewed in the likeness of the eternal Son (not to acquire a set of detached supposedly divine qualities). But this in turn draws our attention to what it means to say that the Son or Word is the primary image of the eternal Father. The Son glorifies the Father: Anatolios underlines this theme perhaps more copiously and creatively than any theologian in the last century. And this glorification may be understood as the Son making manifest who and what the Father is, and the Son fulfilling or actualizing who and what the Father is. Not that there is some primordial ‘lack’ or potentiality in the Father's hypostatic being which the Son ‘makes good’: we are bound to avoid any such mythologizing narratives where the divine life is concerned. There is no precosmic time in which the Father exists alone, needing to be fulfilled by the generation of the Son, no progression of the Son towards the realizing of a more perfect union with the Father: the creed and anathemas of Nicaea saw off such errors. But we can say that in the generation of the Son, the Father establishes that the divine being in its eternal quality and actuality as Source is eternally and perfectly actual only in pouring out the infinite excess of its life in the active reality of the divine life as Word, as the ‘derived’ life which shows that the divine Source is inexhaustible – that it exists precisely, intrinsically, as Source, as a life that is never contained within itself. The Son/Word is first and foremost that eternally actualized reality which exists because of the truth that divine love is love without containment; and as we discern this, we see how the very being of the Word – and of the Spirit – manifests that the Source of divinity is immeasurably generative, capable of generating what is equal to itself in divine beauty and liberty. So limitless is the divine life as Source that it cannot generate what is less than itself; and so too, what is generated cannot be thought of as living with anything less than a full equality of the glory, radiance and freedom that is intrinsic to the generating action of the divine Source, so that the divine life cannot be simply a relation of two reciprocal agencies – a theme that is familiar in much of the theology of the fourth century.
The fundamental texts in Scripture that open this up are to be found in the Fourth Gospel, especially in the Farewell Discourses of chapters 14 to 17, where we read of how the eternal Word receives and shares the glory, the active radiant outpouring of life and generative love, which belongs to the et
{"title":"Deification and the Divine Image","authors":"Rowan Williams","doi":"10.1111/ijst.12616","DOIUrl":"10.1111/ijst.12616","url":null,"abstract":"<p>One of the really significant features of Khaled Anatolios' s groundbreaking study is that it obliges us to think more clearly about what the divine image is that is restored or liberated in the process of our redemption – our <i>theosis</i>. That this is pre-eminently the image of ‘filial’ love and intimacy is rightly at the centre of this discussion: to be ‘deified’ is to be renewed in the likeness of the eternal Son (not to acquire a set of detached supposedly divine qualities). But this in turn draws our attention to what it means to say that the Son or Word is the primary image of the eternal Father. The Son glorifies the Father: Anatolios underlines this theme perhaps more copiously and creatively than any theologian in the last century. And this glorification may be understood as the Son <i>making manifest</i> who and what the Father is, and the Son <i>fulfilling or actualizing</i> who and what the Father is. Not that there is some primordial ‘lack’ or potentiality in the Father's hypostatic being which the Son ‘makes good’: we are bound to avoid any such mythologizing narratives where the divine life is concerned. There is no precosmic time in which the Father exists alone, needing to be fulfilled by the generation of the Son, no progression of the Son towards the realizing of a more perfect union with the Father: the creed and anathemas of Nicaea saw off such errors. But we can say that in the generation of the Son, the Father establishes that the divine being in its eternal quality and actuality as Source is eternally and perfectly actual only <i>in</i> pouring out the infinite excess of its life in the active reality of the divine life as Word, as the ‘derived’ life which shows that the divine Source is inexhaustible – that it exists precisely, intrinsically, <i>as</i> Source, as a life that is never contained within itself. The Son/Word is first and foremost that eternally actualized reality which exists because of the truth that divine love is love without containment; and as we discern this, we see how the very being of the Word – and of the Spirit – manifests that the Source of divinity is immeasurably generative, capable of generating what is equal to itself in divine beauty and liberty. So limitless is the divine life as Source that it cannot generate what is less than itself; and so too, what is generated cannot be thought of as living with anything less than a full equality of the glory, radiance and freedom that is intrinsic to the generating action of the divine Source, so that the divine life cannot be simply a relation of two reciprocal agencies – a theme that is familiar in much of the theology of the fourth century.</p><p>The fundamental texts in Scripture that open this up are to be found in the Fourth Gospel, especially in the Farewell Discourses of chapters 14 to 17, where we read of how the eternal Word receives and shares the glory, the active radiant outpouring of life and generative love, which belongs to the et","PeriodicalId":43284,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Systematic Theology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-01-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/ijst.12616","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47742587","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Rebecca L. Copeland, Created Being: Expanding Creedal Christology. Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2020, xii + 146pp. $39.99","authors":"Joseph Gordon","doi":"10.1111/ijst.12630","DOIUrl":"10.1111/ijst.12630","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43284,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Systematic Theology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47030146","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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