Dogmatic Theology: Creation, Gods Image in Man, and the Redeeming Work of the Trinity

In this book, a revised, annotated, and expanded second edition of Thologie dogmatique, edited in the French by Olivier Clment and Michel Stavrou, readers encounter Losskys classroom lectures on dogmatic theology. Lossky confronts the great questions of theology: How can we know God? How is the Creator related to his creation? What is the vocation of human beings, created in Gods image?These questions are understood in light of the two great mysteries of the faith: the Trinity and the incarnation of the Son of God. In Losskys articulation, these are not abstract theories, but living and vivid realities. Emphasizing the thought of the Fathers, Lossky actualizes the latter in a creative fashion through a critical reflectionnamely on the theme of the personattempting through an approach that is faithful and free, to express the elements of the ecclesial tradition in a contemporary language. In the wake of the Fathers, Lossky linked dogma narrowly to the spiritual life, rejecting the false and ruinous split between spirituality and theology, hence this term mystical theology (from the Introduction).