CHURHST 764
Becoming Divine: A History of Eastern Orthodoxy
Jackson Shepard
Description from DukeHub
This course traces the development of the eastern Christian doctrine of Divinization or Theosis from its embryonic form in Clement of Alexandria, Origen, and the desert mothers and fathers to later voices including Gregory of Nazianzus, Gregory of Nyssa, and Maximus whom it will compare with western figures, like Augustine, and Syriac figures, like Ephrem.
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- Yes: Small, in-person format · seminar, 15 seats per section
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