Table of Contents

Foreword by Andrew Louth
Introduction
1. Plausibility and Vision: The Beatific Vision in Modernity
Part One: Beatific Vision in Early Christian Thought
2. Philosophy and Vision: Plato, Plotinus, and the Christian Faith
3. Progress and Vision: Gregory of Nyssa’s Unending Search
4. Anticipation and Vision: Augustine on Theophanies and Ecstasy
Part Two: Beatific Vision in Medieval Thought
5. Transfiguration and Vision: Thomas Aquinas and Gregory Palamas
6. Mystical Union and Vision: Symeon the New Theologian and John of the Cross
7. Faculties and Vision: Bonaventure and Nicholas of Cusa
8. Speech and Vision: Dante’s Transhumanizing Journey
Part Three: Beatific Vision in Protestant Thought
9. Accommodation and Vision: John Calvin on Face-to-Face Vision of God
10. Modernity and Vision: John Donne’s Restoration of “Commerce twixt heauen and earth”
11. Christ and Vision: Puritan and Dutch Reformed Articulations of the Beatific Vision
12. Mediation and Vision: An Edwardsean Modification of Thomas Aquinas
Part Four: Beatific Vision: A Dogmatic Appraisal
13. Pedagogy and Vision: Beatific Vision through Apprenticeship

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