Aristotle Papanikolaou (Edited By) Aristotle Papanikolaou is Professor of Theology, the Archbishop Demetrios Chair of Orthodox Theology and Culture, and the Co-Director of the Orthodox Christian Studies Center at Fordham University. He is also Senior Fellow at the Emory University Center for the Study of Law and Religion. He is the author of Being with God: Trinity, Apophaticism, and Divine–Human Communion and The Mystical as Political: Democracy and Non-Radical Orthodoxy. George E. Demacopoulos (Edited By) George E. Demacopoulos is Fr. John Meyendorff & Patterson Family Chair of Orthodox Christian Studies and Professor of Theology at Fordham University. He is the author of Colonizing Christianity: Greek and Latin Religious Identity in the Era of the Fourth Crusade and Gregory the Great: Ascetic, Pastor, and First Man of Rome.
Demacopoulos and Papanikolaou have brought together a cast of distinguished authors from a broad range of theological traditions to offer their reflections on the multiple meanings of 'becoming divine', the human transformation that we have learned to call theosis. Perspectives rooted in patristic thought, Byzantine and Western Medieval mystical experience, and modern theological and philosophical discourse converge to present an astonishingly rich concept whose potential to revitalize contemporary theology has still not been exhausted. This important book is a tour de force that deserves to be widely read.---Norman Russell, Honorary Research Fellow of St Stephen's House, University of Oxford, and author of The Doctrine of Deification in the Greek Patristic Tradition.