In the Image and Likeness of God

Publication Data: Crestwood, NY: St Vladimir’s Seminary Press, 1974
Format: softcover
Number of Pages: 232
Dimensions (l × w × h): 21.7 cm × 14.0 cm × 1.6 cm
ISBN: 0‒913836‒13‒3

   
Vladimir Lossky
Edited by John H. Erickson and Thomas E. Bird
Introduction by John Meyendorff

“The present volume represents a collection of Lossky’s articles, published over the years in various periodicals. [...]Under the general title In the Image and Likeness of God, the book contains articles on themes which Lossky also treated elsewhere: the importance of ‘apophatic’ (or ‘negative’) theology, the vision of divine light, and the doctrine of the procession of the Holy Spirit from the Father. As in his other writings, he brilliantly shows that these doctrines are not peripheral to the Christian Gospel, but stand at its very center and reveal the true and living God of Scriptures, always different from and transcendent to all concepts and philosophies. Lossky concerns the relationship between the Orthodox doctrine of the Trinity and the Orthodox understanding of man: like the divine Persons of the Trinity, the human ‘person’—in the image of God—in its absolute uniqueness, but equally absolute ‘relatedness’ in love to other persons, can only be understood theologically.”
—“Foreword”

CONTENTS

Acknowledgement
Foreword
1
Apophasis and Trinitarian Theology
2
Darkness and Light in the Knowledge of God
3
The Theology of Light in the Thought of St. Gregory Palamas
4
The Procession of the Holy Spirit in Orthodox Trinitarian Doctrine
5
Redemption and Deification
6
The Theological Notion of the Human Person
7
The Theology of the Image
8
Tradition and Traditions
9
Concerning the Third Mark of the Church: Catholicity
10
Catholic Consciousness: Anthropological Implications of the Dogma of the Church
11
Panagia
12
Dominion and Kingship: An Eschatological Study
Bibliography