TY - BOOK ID - 61175499 TI - Analogical identities : the creation of the christian self : beyond spirituality and mysticism in the patristic era PY - 2019 VL - 28 SN - 22943617 SN - 9782503578156 2503578152 9782503578163 PB - Turnhout: Brepols, DB - UniCat KW - Christian spirituality KW - 276:248 KW - 276:248 Patrologie. Patristiek-:-Spiritualiteit. Ascese. Mystiek. Vroomheid KW - 276:248 Patrologie. Patristique-:-Spiritualite. Ascese. Mystique. Theologie ascetique et mystique. Devotion KW - Patrologie. Patristiek-:-Spiritualiteit. Ascese. Mystiek. Vroomheid KW - Patrologie. Patristique-:-Spiritualite. Ascese. Mystique. Theologie ascetique et mystique. Devotion KW - Philosophical theology KW - Self KW - Spirituality KW - Mysticism KW - Religious aspects KW - Christianity. KW - Fathers of the church KW - Christianity KW - History KW - Self - Religious aspects - Christianity. KW - Spirituality - Christianity. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:61175499 AB - A book about the possibility of retrieving a concept of selfhood from Patristic theology, beyond the dichotomies of mind and body, or person and nature.Is it possible for nihilism and an ontology of personhood as will to power to be incubated in the womb of Christian Mysticism? Is it possible that the modern ontology of power, which constitutes the core of the Greek-Western metaphysics, has a theological grounding? Has Nietszche reversed Plato or, more likely, Augustine and Origen, re-fashioning in a secular framework the very essence of their ontology? Do we have any alternative Patristic anthropological sources of the Greek-Western Self, beyond what has been traditionally called "Spirituality" or "Mysticism"? Patristic theology seems to ultimately provide us with a different understanding of selfhood, beyond any Ancient or modern, Platonic or not, Transcendentalism. This book strives to decipher, retrieve, and re-embody the underlying mature Patristic concept of selfhood, beyond the dichotomies of mind and body, essence and existence, transcendence and immanence, inner and outer, conscious and unconscious, person and nature, freedom and necessity: the Analogical Identityof this Self needs to be explored. ER -