Mystical Doctrines of Deification

John Arblaster is a postdoctoral researcher at the Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies, KU Leuven and the Ruusbroec Institute, University of Antwerp. His research focuses on the doctrine of deification in the mystical literature of the late medieval Low Countries. With Rob Faesen, he co-edited A Companion to John of Ruusbroec (Brill, 2014) and Mystical Anthropology: Authors from the Low Countries (Routledge, 2017). He has published several articles and book chapters, including a contribution to the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Mystical Theology (OUP). He is co-convener (with Louise Nelstrop and Simon D. Podmore) of the Mystical Theology Network.Rob Faesen S.J. is professor of the history of spirituality and mysticism at the Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies, KU Leuven, the Ruusbroec Institute, University of Antwerp, and the School of Catholic Theology, Tilburg University. He has published extensively in the field of medieval mysticism, but also in Jesuit history and spirituality. He was a member of the editorial team responsible for the new critical edition of the works of John of Ruusbroec, and has authored and co-authored numerous contributions.

• Introduction, John Arblaster and Rob Faesen 1 Θεοποιεῖσθαι and δοξάζεσθαι: Deification and glorification in Origen’s exegesis of John 13:31-32, Vito Limone 2 "You Can Become All Flame": Deification in Early Egyptian Monasticism, Daniel Lemeni 3 Down by The Lover’s Well: Gregory of Nyssa and Annie Dillard on Divinization, Martin Laird, O.S.A. 4 Plato’s Contribution to Augustine’s Theory of Theosis, Victor Yudin 5 The Reception of the Greek Patristic Doctrine of Deification in the Medieval West: The Case of John Scottus Eriugena, Ernesto Sergio Mainoldi 6 The Dream of the Rood: A Neglected Contemplative Text, Tim Flight 7 Ubi caro mea glorificatur, gloriosum me esse cognosco: Deification in John of Fécamp (c. 990-1078), Rob Faesen, S.J. 8 The Abyss of Man, The Abyss of Love, Patrick Cooper 9 "Becoming a cross to thyself": Loving humility in The Book of Privy Counselling and Thomas Nagel’s "impersonal standpoint", Maria Exall 10 The Monk of Farne: A Forgotten Medieval English Mystic, Louise Nelstrop 11 Psychology, Theosis and the Soul: St. Teresa of Avila, St. Augustine and Plotinus on the Western Picture of Theosis, Peter Tyler 12 Hans Urs von Balthasar’s Indifference to Divinization, Jonathan Ciraulo