The Ground of Union: Deification in Aquinas and Palamas

by A. N. Williams

Overview

This book attempts to resolve one of the oldest and bitterest controversies between the Eastern and Western Christian churches: namely, the dispute about the doctrine of deification. A. N. Williams examines two key thinkers, each of whom is championed as the authentic spokesman of his own tradition and reviled by the other. Taking Aquinas as representative of the West and Gregory Palamas for the East, she presents fresh readings of their work that both reinterpret each thinker and show an area of commonality between them much greater than has previously been acknowledged.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780195124361
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	06/17/1999
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	230
Product dimensions:	9.32(w) x 6.38(h) x 0.94(d)
Lexile:	1460L (what's this?)