@article{THESIS,
      recid = {6528},
      author = {Llanes, Christina Kathryn},
      title = {The Darkness in Christ's Eyes: The Incarnational Theology  of Divine Union in Angela of Foligno's Memorial},
      publisher = {University of Chicago},
      school = {Ph.D.},
      address = {2023-06},
      number = {THESIS},
      abstract = {Angela’s rich Christology and Trinitarian theology unfold  in the context of her reflection on divine union. For  Angela, union with God is a participation in the  incarnation of Christ and ultimately in the Trinity itself.  I argue that Angela’s understanding of Christ’s hypostatic  union and the Trinitarian unity-in-distinction provides her  with the theological framework to describe her own union  with God. These theological concepts allow her to  understand divine union as a state of profound mutuality  between God and the soul in which the distinctiveness of  each nature seems to become permeable. Angela’s humanity  and God’s divinity share individual characteristics that  would not otherwise be attributed to them. God shares in  the human experiences of poverty, suffering, and contempt,  while Angela’s humanity shares in the transcendent darkness  of the divine. The divine shares in human passibility  (while paradoxically remaining impassible); while the human  being is able to share in God’s very self (theōsis). The  astounding mutuality between the soul and God in Angela’s  theology sometimes seems to stretch the boundaries of  orthodoxy, but Angela’s understanding of divine union  always maintains the distinctness of human and divine.  Rooted in Chalcedonian Christology, Angela preserves God’s  impassibility while allowing him to share in the suffering,  poverty, and contempt of Cross. Similarly, Angela’s  understanding of theōsis upholds her human distinctness  even when she is immersed in the divine darkness and  standing amid the Trinity.},
      url = {http://knowledge.uchicago.edu/record/6528},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.6528},
}