Eastern Church Fathers on Being Human-Dichotomy in Essence and Wholeness in Deification
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3583071 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Olga Vasilievna Chistyakova (0000-0002-1074-0913, Peoples' Friendship University of Russia, corresponding author), Olga Chistyakova |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue | 8 |
| Pages | 575 |
| Publication date | 2021-07-27 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Religions (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2077-1444 • E-ISSN: 2077-1444 |
| Publisher | MDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT) |
| DOI | 10.3390/rel12080575 |
| OpenAlex | W3185235844 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 6 |
The article traces the formation of Eastern Christian anthropology as a new religious and philosophical tradition within the Early Byzantine culture. The notion "Patristics" is reasoned as a corpus of ideas of the Church Fathers, both Eastern and Western. The term "Eastern Patristics" means the works by Greek-Byzantine Church Fathers, who in the theological disputes with the Western Church Fathers elaborated the Christian creed. Based on an analysis of the texts of Greek-Byzantine Church Fathers, the most important provisions of Eastern Patristics are deduced and discussed, which determined the specificity of Christian anthropology. In this context, different approaches of the Eastern Fathers to the explanation of the Old Testament thesis on the creation of man in God's image and likeness and the justification of the duality of human essence are shown. Particular attention is paid to considering the idea of deification as overcoming the human dualism and the entire created universe, the doctrine of the Divine Logoi as God's energies, and the potential elimination of the antinomianism of the earthly and Divine worlds. The article reflects the anthropological ideas of the pre-Nicene Church Father Irenaeus, the non-canonical early Christian work The Shepherd of Hermas, and the teachings on the man of the classical Eastern Patristics period by Athanasius of Alexandria, Gregory of Nyssa, and Maximus the Confessor
Archaeology · Byzantine architecture · Christian theology · Christianity · Church Fathers · Creed · Doctrine · Dualism · Early Christianity · New Testament · Theology · Biblical Studies and Interpretation · Byzantine Studies and History · Classics · Historical and Linguistic Studies · History · Philosophy · Religious studies
| Unique citing works | 4 |
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| Citations per year | 1,33 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2024 (2) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |