Deification Of Man In Christianity
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Deification Of Man In Christianity
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Author : Marcelle Bartolo-Abela
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014-03-12
Deification Of Man In Christianity written by Marcelle Bartolo-Abela and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-03-12 with Religion categories.
Deification is the transformation of man into god through the grace of God. Predominant in the theology of Eastern Christianity, but marginalized and obscured in contemporary interpretations of the theology of Western Christianity, Bartolo-Abela explores how it is deification, not just salvation, that was and remains the intent of God for mankind, with deification occurring not solely in patria, but in via and in patria. This is an understanding of deification which has been largely lost and needs to be recovered in the Western Church. Examining the works of the Church Fathers on both sides of the East-West divide in Christianity, Bartolo-Abela shows that rather than being restricted to the East, deification featured consistently in many theological works popular in the West, with the most prominent being those of Aquinas, Augustine, Hilary of Poitiers, Irenaeus and Jerome. Bartolo-Abela argues that it was deification, not just salvation as commonly understood, that was also inherently referred to by Paul VI in the universal call to holiness found in Lumen Gentium, the Dogmatic Constitution on the Church. Deification is the process of man becoming god and attaining theoria, seeing God, after purification of the heart and illumination of the heart of the soul have ensued through baptism in the Holy Spirit, as understood throughout tradition. Deification from this life, not solely the next, is the desire of God for mankind in accord with the words of Christ and Peter, "I said you are gods" (Jn 10:34) and "partakers of the divine nature" (2 P 1:4).
Deification In Eastern Orthodox Theology
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Author : Emil Bartos
language : en
Publisher: Paternoster
Release Date : 1999
Deification In Eastern Orthodox Theology written by Emil Bartos and has been published by Paternoster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Religion categories.
This book examines the past and present of the English parish system and proposes a new way of structuring the church in England rooted in the Anglo-Saxon world. The English parish is in a state of crisis. Ideally suited to the static, agricultural, hierarchical society in which it developed, it has become a severe impediment to the Church's work today. It needs to change. In this fascinating and insightful book, Nick Spencer explores the parish's past, present and future. He shows that rather than being synonymous with English Christianity, the parish was a comparatively late arrival on the scene, and one whose main roots were economic and social rather than ecclesiastical. He goes on to explain why the parish is now singularly inappropriate for modern ministry, before proposing a genuine alternative based on the system of Anglo-Saxon minster churches out of which parishes grew.
Called To Be The Children Of God
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Author : David Vincent Meconi
language : en
Publisher: Ignatius Press
Release Date : 2016-04-19
Called To Be The Children Of God written by David Vincent Meconi and has been published by Ignatius Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-19 with Religion categories.
This book gathers fourteen Catholic scholars to present, examine, and explain the often misunderstood process of ""deification"". The fifteen chapters show what becoming God meant for the early Church, for St. Thomas Aquinas and the greatest Dominicans, and for St. Francis and the early Franciscans. This book explains how this understanding of salvation played out during the Protestant Reformation and the Council of Trent. It explores the thought of the French School of Spirituality, various Thomists, John Henry Newman, John Paul II, and the Vatican Councils, and it shows where such thinking can be found today in the Catechism of the Catholic Church. No other book has gathered such an array of scholars or provided such a deep study into how humanity's divinized life in Christ has received many rich and various perspectives over the past two thousand years. This book seeks to bring readers into the central mystery of Christianity by allowing the Church's greatest thinkers and texts to speak for themselves, demonstrating how becoming Christ-like and the Body of Christ on earth, is the only ultimate purpose of the Christian faith.
Deification And The Rule Of Faith
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Author : Daniel E. Wilson Ph.D.
language : en
Publisher: WestBow Press
Release Date : 2015-11-05
Deification And The Rule Of Faith written by Daniel E. Wilson Ph.D. and has been published by WestBow Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-11-05 with Religion categories.
Evangelicals are often surprised or maybe even shocked whenever they encounter the early Church Fathers description of salvation in terms of deification, divinization, or apotheosis. It was Athanasius, the black dwarf, the champion of Nicene orthodoxy, who coined the phrase in his On the Incarnation, God became man that man might become god. Hundreds of years before Athanasius, Irenaeus, disciple of Polycarp, disciple of the Apostle John, wrote of Christs salvific provision for humanity using similar deification type concepts. Why did these Church Fathers use such seemingly foreign biblical concepts? Could it be that influential theologian, Adolf Harnack, is right and these church Fathers implementation of deification reveal that the gospel changed from what Jesus originally intended after being exposed to Hellenistic culture? Not at all, at least, that is what this work argues. It does so, first, by comparing an overall understanding of deification in both Athanasius and Irenaeus respective writings. This section encompasses the first three chapters, which exhibit how the Fathers use of deification is immersed in their respective descriptions of salvation history, the Trinity, and Christology. Further, this work assesses Harnacks proposal by comparing the Fathers respective descriptions of deification with that of many Greek and Roman philosophers. Finally, this work seeks to propose that both Irenaeus and Athanasius contextualize the gospel by comparing the Fathers respective descriptions of deification with their respective understandings of scriptural authority and the rule of faith.
Deification And The Rule Of Faith
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Author : Daniel E. Wilson
language : en
Publisher: CrossBooks Publishing
Release Date : 2010-01
Deification And The Rule Of Faith written by Daniel E. Wilson and has been published by CrossBooks Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-01 with Religion categories.
Evangelicals are often surprised or maybe even shocked whenever they encounter the early Church Fathers' description of salvation in terms of deification, divinization, or apotheosis. It was Athanasius, the black dwarf, the champion of Nicene orthodoxy, who coined the phrase in his On the Incarnation, "God became man that man might become god." Hundreds of years before Athanasius, Irenaeus, disciple of Polycarp, disciple of the Apostle John, wrote of Christ's salvific provision for humanity using similar deification type concepts. Why did these Church Fathers use such seemingly foreign biblical concepts? Could it be that influential theologian, Adolf Harnack, is right and these church Fathers' implementation of deification reveal that the gospel changed from what Jesus originally intended after being exposed to Hellenistic culture? Not at all, at least, that is what this work argues. It does so, first, by comparing an overall understanding of deification in both Athanasius' and Irenaeus' respective writings. This section encompasses the first three chapters, which exhibit how the Fathers' use of deification is immersed in their respective descriptions of salvation history, the Trinity, and Christology. Further, this work assesses Harnack's proposal by comparing the Fathers' respective descriptions of deification with that of many Greek and Roman philosophers. Finally, this work seeks to propose that both Irenaeus and Athanasius contextualize the gospel by comparing the Father's respective descriptions of deification with their respective understandings of scriptural authority and the rule of faith.
The Deification Of Man
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Author : Geōrgios I. Mantzaridēs
language : en
Publisher: Burns & Oates
Release Date : 1984
The Deification Of Man written by Geōrgios I. Mantzaridēs and has been published by Burns & Oates this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1984 with Deification (Christianity) categories.
The theological and anthropological basis for the doctrine of deification as expounded by St Gregory Palamas (1296-1359).
The Doctrine Of Deification In The Greek Patristic Tradition
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Author : Norman Russell
language : en
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2005-01-21
The Doctrine Of Deification In The Greek Patristic Tradition written by Norman Russell and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-01-21 with Religion categories.
Deification in the Greek patristic tradition was the fulfilment of the destiny for which humanity was created - not merely salvation from sin but entry into the fullness of the divine life of the Trinity. This book, the first on the subject for over sixty years, traces the history of deification from its birth as a second-century metaphor with biblical roots to its maturity as a doctrine central to the spiritual life of the Byzantine Church. Drawing attention to the richness and diversity of the patristic approaches from Irenaeus to Maximus the Confessor, Norman Russell offers a full discussion of the background and context of the doctrine, at the same time highlighting its distinctively Christian character.
Theosis
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Author : Stephen Finlan
language : en
Publisher: James Clarke & Company
Release Date : 2010-02-25
Theosis written by Stephen Finlan and has been published by James Clarke & Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-02-25 with Religion categories.
'Deification' refers to the transformation of believers into the likeness of God. Of course, Christian monotheism goes against any literal 'god making' of believers. Rather, the NT speaks of a transformation of mind, a metamorphosis of character, a redefinition of selfhood, and an imitation of God. Most of these passages are tantalizingly brief, and none spells out the concept in detail.
Ye Are God S
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Author : Al-amin Ibn Toledo
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2015-12-31
Ye Are God S written by Al-amin Ibn Toledo and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-12-31 with categories.
This book is about 'Sanctification' and what position man is given through out the Old Testament, New Testament, and the Biblical World View. Man Has a unique position in that out of all living things, he is made the seat of the Most High and is sanctified as such to be the 'cult statue' of the creator. This position is in the biblical tradition exemplified by Jesus (as) by way of the Christ who indwelt bodily in Jesus.
Kenosis In Theosis
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Author : Sigurd Lefsrud
language : en
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Release Date : 2019-12-30
Kenosis In Theosis written by Sigurd Lefsrud and has been published by Wipf and Stock Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-12-30 with Religion categories.
The perennial questions surrounding human identity and meaning have never before been so acute. How we define ourselves is crucial since it determines our conception of society, ethics, sexuality—in short, our very notion of the “good.” The traditional Christian teaching of “deification” powerfully addresses this theme by revealing the sacred dignity and purpose of all created life, and providing a comprehensive vision of reality that extends from the individual to the cosmos. Hans Urs von Balthasar is a valuable guide in elucidating the church’s teaching on this vital subject. Following the patristic tradition, he focuses his attention on Jesus Christ, whose kenotic descent in his incarnation and passion reveals both the loving character of God and the perfection of humanity. Christ is the “concrete analogy of being” who in his two natures as God and man unites heaven and earth. It is the Trinity, however, that brings to fruition the fullness of the meaning of theosis in Balthasar’s theology. The community of divine persons eternally deifies the cosmos by embracing and transforming it into the paradigm of all reality—the imago trinitatis—overcoming the distance between the created and uncreated while maintaining and honoring their difference.