Seeing God: the beatific vision in Christian tradition

Foreword / Andrew Louth

1. Plausibility and vision : the beatific vision in modernity

Part 1. 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 2. 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 3. Beatific Vision in Protestant Thought :

9. Accomodation 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 4. Beatific Vision : a Dogmatic Appraisal

13. Pedagogy and vision : beatific vision through apprenticeship