title: Eastern patristics on duality of the human being and deification of the mankind
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metadata.value: Chistyakova, Olga V.
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metadata.value: 2023-02-07T10:07:20Z
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metadata.value: 2023-02-07T10:07:20Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2022-12
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metadata.value: Chistyakova O. V. Eastern patristics on duality of the human being and deification of the mankind. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Philosophy and Conflict Studies, 2022, vol. 38, issue 4, pp. 650–661. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu17.2022.417 (In Russian)
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu17.2022.417
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/38979
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metadata.value: Religious and anthropological issues of the Eastern Patristics legacy are under consideration
  in the article. The conceptual justification of the human being by Greek-Byzantine Church Fathers
  is submitted, paying attention to antinomianism in understanding the Man essence. The
  human duality is analyzed in tight with the diversity of historical theologian approaches to
  clarifying the New Testament thesis on the creation of Man in the image and likeness of God.
  In this context, a doctrine of Irenaeus, a Church Father of the ante-Nicene period of Christianity,
  some ideas of a non-canonical Early Christian manuscript, The Shepherd by Hermes of
  Philippopolis, and teaching on Man by Gregory of Nyssa as one of the profound representatives
  of the Patristics’ classical period are presented. The author examines a notion of deification
  with specific stress on its religious and philosophical meanings. Deification is studied
  both as the theoretical foundation for the Eastern Christian anthropological tradition forming
  over the Middle Ages and as the religious gnosis, purifying, perfecting, and transfiguring of a
  human being on their God knowing ascending path. Deification is deduced as a peculiar style
  of life that aims at the eschatological and soteriological prospects of human existence, which
  are correlated with the highest religious morality and eternal desire to reach the cherished
  spiritual state of God and Man union. In this regard, the doctrine of a follower of allegorical
  theology, Maximus the Confessor on the Logoi, or God’s energies, is very significant as well as
  his interpretation of the notion of deification. According to St. Maximus, the comprehension
  of Logoi by the human being supports the unification of the mundane world with the Creator
  (the omnipotent Logos). It means the deification of the entire humanity. The article is based on
  the texts of Church Fathers, which are the sacred primary sources of Christianity.
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: ru
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Philosophy and Conflict Studies;Volume 38; Issue 4
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Greek-Byzantine Church Fathers
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: deification
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Christian anthropology
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: philosophy of Byzantium
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Eastern patristics on duality of the human being and deification of the mankind
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metadata.value: Article
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