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Yes, you can access The Mystical Tradition of the Eastern Church by Sergey Trostyanskiy,Jess Gilbert, Sergey Trostyanskiy, Jess Gilbert in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Theology & Religion & Christian Denominations. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

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Publisher

Gorgias Press

Year

2019

eBook ISBN

9781463240615

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Topic

Theology & Religion

Subtopic

Christian Denominations

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Preface and Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction: Mysticism and its Historical Manifestations
I. MYSTICAL THEOLOGY AND CHURCH MOTHERS AND FATHERS
I.1. The Relation Between the Incomprehensibility of God and the Naming of God in the Theology of Pseudo-Dionysius
I.2. Toward an Understanding of Maximus the Confessor’s Mystical Theology of Deification: The Spiritual Sabbath / Eighth Day Sequence in Two Hundred Chapters on Theology
I.3. Mystical Theology in the Writings of Gregory of Nyssa and Dionysius Areopagite
I.4. Analogy in the Mystical Theology of Gregory of Nyssa: Transcending Negation and Affirmation
I.5. Recapitulative Reversal and the Restoration of Humanity in St. Irenaeus
I.6. Kindling Divine Fire: The Mystical Sayings of St. Syncletica
II. LITURGY, SACRAMENTS, AND ICONS
II.1. The Kingdom of the Holy Trinity and the Movement of a Community in the Sacrificial Spirit of Christ: The importance of Father Dumitru Stăniloae’s Mystical and Ascetic Vision of the Holy Liturgy
II.2. The Sacraments of the Church: Basis of Spirituality, Building Blocks of the Kingdom
II.3. The Mystery of Representation: Theodore the Studite on Seeing the Invisible
III. CONTEMPORARY PRACTICE AND APPLICATIONS
III.1. Understanding My Avatar: Cyberbeing, Bio- Digital Personhood, and Fictional Transcendences from an Orthodox Perspective
III.2. A Theory of Practice: A Meditation on Practice Itself
III.3. The Prayer of the Heart as Method of Cognitive Behavioral Psychotherapy
III.4. Orthopraxis and Theosis: The Role of Ritual in the Training of the Mind
Indices
Subject Index
Index of Names

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