Ebook {Epub PDF} The Ground of Union: Deification in Aquinas and Palamas by A.N. Williams

Deification was the dominant patristic model of salvation and remained the essential paradigm in the East but was thought to have disappeared from Western theology by the Middle Ages. A. N. 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. This book examines two key thinkers, each of whom is championed as the authentic spokesman of his own tradition and reviled by the other. 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 Cited by: 3.

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The second work, The Ground of Union: Deification in Aquinas and Palamas by A.N. Williams, is the first book-length comparison of these two pivotal figures. It is a revision of the author's doctoral dissertation, and has a certain plodding dryness characteristic of the genre; nonetheless, it is clear and well- informed, and Williams is to be commended for her attempt to understand both authors sympathetically. For the study of deification in Thomas Aquinas, the most prominent English work is A. N. Williams’s The Ground of Union: Deification in Aquinas and Palamas. 6 This work has, however, garnered a fair amount of criticism. The present essay enters into and advances the dialogue between Williams and her critics. 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.