AnyBook4Less.com	Find the Best Price on the Web Order from a Major Online Bookstore
Home  |  Store List  |  FAQ  |  Contact Us  |
Ultimate Book Price Comparison Engine Save Your Time And Money Keyword AuthorISBN

Title: The Experience of God : Orthodox Dogmatic Theology Volume 2: The World, Creation and Deification by Dumitru Staniloae ISBN: 1885652410 Publisher: Holy Cross Orthodox Press Pub. Date: 20 December, 2000 Format: Paperback List Price(USD): $19.95

Your Country USA Canada United Kingdom Australia Austria Belgium France Germany Italy Netherlands Switzerland Currency AutoUSD CAD GBP EUR AUD CHF Delivery Only cheapest delivery All delivery options Include Used Books Are you a club member of: Barnes and Noble Books A Million Chapters.Indigo.ca

Average Customer Rating: 5

Rating: 5
Summary: "For God so loved the world..."
Comment: Ever since the publication of the first volume to be translated into English of Dumitru Staniloae's great work, The Experience of God: Revelation and Knowledge of the Triune God, I have been impatiently waiting for the arrival of the second volume, on The World, Creation and Deification. Was it worth the wait? Yes, it truly was, and is, and I hope I can tone down my enthusiasm enough to make this review believable to all those who might distrust a gushing review. Staniloae is a kind of theological genius, and I don't mean of the impossible to understand variety, but of the amazing insight after amazing insight variety! (See my review of volume one.) This time Staniloae turns his brilliant contemplative vision toward the created world and gives us a wonderful picture of the way God's glorious creation must be understood, valued and cared for, not just by Christians (although God knows many of us who honor that Name need to be closer to creation than we are) but by anyone who intuits that a great mystery of Love lies shimmering and shining behind everything that exists. Staniloae examines, respectively, creation-the visible world, the world as gift and word (a marvelous chapter on the quality of gift and inner word (logos) hidden in all created things), the creation of humanity, the unseen world of angels and demons, the fall (one of the finest and most enlightening reflections on the doctrine of the fall of man I have ever read), and on Divine providence and the deification of the world. He shows us, as few Christian theological writers of the present day can do, how “salvation and deification undoubtedly have humanity directly as their aim but not a humanity separated from nature, rather one that is ontologically united with it.” (The passages in quotation are from page one). Reading this book leads one to the insight, so needed today, especially in religion, that “nature both depends upon man and makes him whole, and man cannot reach perfection if he does not reflect nature and is not at work upon it.” Staniloae in this book shows us unmistakably that in the much beloved passage from John 3:16, beginning “For God so loved the world (Greek: cosmos), “world” must be understood as including all creatures, all creation, not humanity alone. A truly inspiring book that is itself a spiritual gift to anyone who reads it. Highest recommendation

Similar Books:

	Title: The Experience of God (Orthodox Dogmatic Theology, Volume 1: Revelation and Knowledge of the triuNe God) by Dumitru Staniloae, Ioan Ionita, Robert Barringer ISBN: 0917651707 Publisher: Holy Cross Orthodox Press Pub. Date: June, 1999 List Price(USD): $19.95
	Title: The Bride of the Lamb by Sergei Nikolaevich Bulgakov, Boris Jakim, Sergius Bulgakov ISBN: 0802839150 Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. Pub. Date: November, 2001 List Price(USD): $40.00
	Title: The Orthodox Way by Kallistos Ware ISBN: 0913836583 Publisher: St Vladimirs Seminary Pr Pub. Date: 01 September, 1995 List Price(USD): $10.95
	Title: The Mystical Theology of the Eastern Church by Vladimir Lossky ISBN: 0913836311 Publisher: St Vladimirs Seminary Pr Pub. Date: 01 March, 1997 List Price(USD): $14.95
	Title: Sophia, the Wisdom of God: An Outline of Sophiology (Library of Russian Philosophy) by Sergius Bulgakov, Sergei Nikolaevich Bulgakov ISBN: 0940262606 Publisher: Lindisfarne Books Pub. Date: January, 2000 List Price(USD): $17.95