Divine Perfection and Human Potentiality : the Trinitarian Anthropology of Hilary of Poitiers.
The place of Hilary of Poitiers in the debates and developments of early Christianity is tenuous in contemporary scholarship. In this book, Jarred A. Mercer makes a case for understanding Hilary not only as an important historical figure, but as a significant and independent thinker. Divine Perfecti...
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press USA - OSO,
2019.
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| Series: | Oxford studies in historical theology.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Series; Divine Perfection and Human Potentiality; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; The State of Scholarship; The Aim of the Book: A New Paradigm for Hilary's Thought; The Structure of the Book and Summary of Chapters; 1. Divine Generation and Human Potentiality; John 1:1-4 and Divine Generation; The Word in the Beginning: John 1:1-4 in Origen; Cosmology and Soteriology in Origen; The Reasonable Word: John 1:1-4 in Tertullian; Novatian: God, Creation, and the Two "Logoi"; Athanasius Against the "Arians": Reconceiving Divine Perfection
- Hilary: John 1:1-2 and the Birth Without BeginningThe Life in the Word and the Light of Humanity: John 1:3-4; The Potential Creation "In Him"; 2. Divine Infinity and Human Progress; "Traditional" Arguments of Father-Son Relations for Eternal Generation; Name and Nature in Hilary; Divine Birth and Father-Son Analogy; Reforming the Analogy: The Epistemological Reorientation of the Doctrine of God; Divine Infinity in Early Christianity; Introduction to Hilary's Conception of Divine Infinity; The State of the Scholarship: What Is Not Being Said; Apophatic Analogy and Divine Linguistics
- Proverbs 8:22: The Crux InterpretumProverbs 8:22 in the Fourth Century; Hilary's Interpretation: "Potential Creation" and Proverbs 8; Divine Infinity and Human Progress; Conclusion; 3. Divine Unity and the "Ladder of Our Nature"; The Centrality of John 10:30 in Third-Century Anti-Monarchian Polemic; John 10:30 in Fourth-Century Controversy: Hilary's Interpretive Background; Introducing Hilary's Polemical Arguments for Divine Unity; Origin and Nature; Natural Unity and Agreement of Will; The Holy Spirit: Spirit of God and Spirit of Christ; Divine Unity and Mutual Indwelling
- Hilary's "Power Theology": Divine Unity and Common OperationsEpistemological Foundations: Arguments by Analogy and Analogical Language; Tertullian: Approaching the Unapproachable God; Novatian: The Visible Image of the Invisible God; Hilary: The Living Image and the Triune God; Conclusion: Divine Unity and Human Ascension; 4. The Divine Image and Human Destiny; "Image" Language in Philosophical and Christian Traditions; Image Theology in the Fourth Century; Hilary's "Consubstantial" Image Theology; The Consubstantial Image and the Imago Dei
- Basil of Ancyra and the Formation of Hilary's ArgumentThe Living Image of the Living: Hilary's Transformation of Image Language; Image and Equality; Image and Revelation; Image and Mediation; The Imago Dei in Early Christianity; The Imago Dei in Hilary: Humanity in Trinitarian Perspective; Trinity and Human Mediation: Christ's Humanity as the Lived Imago Dei; Approaching Hilary's Christology; Forma Dei-Forma Serui: Divine-Human Coexistence; Body-Soul Relations: Contextualizing Hilary's Discussion; The Body and Soul in Hilary; The Body and Soul of Christ: Contours of the Discussion