radical orthodoxy and theosis
I posted some initial sketchy thoughts on this (mostly summary of others), over at the RadOx roundtable.
This is tricky business in some ways, particularly since I am trying to think it through from within largely Western Christian theological categories, though, despite the protestations of folks like Lossky, there are many deep resonances between earlier medieval thought on this in the Latin church and the theology of the Christian East.
I find Aquinas' trinitarian theology and christology particularly interesting, though difficult, in this regard. Sometimes Aquinas is painted as overemphasizing the oneness of God at the expense of the threeness of the Persons and reducing the Persons to "mere" relations within the divine unity. I regard that as a mistaken portrait, but it does point out some of the difficulties in expositing Aquinas on the topic.
I posted some initial sketchy thoughts on this (mostly summary of others), over at the RadOx roundtable.
This is tricky business in some ways, particularly since I am trying to think it through from within largely Western Christian theological categories, though, despite the protestations of folks like Lossky, there are many deep resonances between earlier medieval thought on this in the Latin church and the theology of the Christian East.
I find Aquinas' trinitarian theology and christology particularly interesting, though difficult, in this regard. Sometimes Aquinas is painted as overemphasizing the oneness of God at the expense of the threeness of the Persons and reducing the Persons to "mere" relations within the divine unity. I regard that as a mistaken portrait, but it does point out some of the difficulties in expositing Aquinas on the topic.
