Partakers Of The Divine Nature The History And Development Of Deification In The Christian Traditions

Author : Michael J. Christensen
Publisher : Baker Academic
ISBN 13 : 080103440X
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Partakers of the Divine Nature written by Michael J. Christensen and published by Baker Academic. This book was released on 2008-02 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scholars from around the world offer a comprehensive, ecumenical survey of the history and development of deification.

Author : Michael J. Christensen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781611473445
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Partakers of the Divine Nature written by Michael J. Christensen and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This critical volume focuses on the issue of continuity and discontinuity ofthe Christian concept of theosis, or deification, in the intellectual history of ideas. It addresses the origin, development, and function of theosis from its antecedents in ancient Greek philosophy to its nuanced use in contemporary theological thought. Often seen as a heresy in the Protestant West, the revival of interest in deification in both lay and scholastic circles heralds a return to foundational understandings of salvation in the Christian church before the divisions of East and West, Catholic and Protestant. The five sections of this work, written by scholars from the Eastern Orthodox, Roman Catholic, and Protestant traditions, introduce and summarize the nature and function of deification and then lead the reader through four general historical periods of development: Greek and New Testament, Patristic, Medieval and Reformation, and Modern thought. This multi-author work accomplishes what no single author could: it treats the various visions and trajectories of deification that have emerged over the span of a millennium in the various Christian traditions, resulting in a sweeping yet thorough and distinctive contribution to scholarly and informed lay discussion of theosis.

Author : Jared Ortiz
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1978707274
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book With All the Fullness of God written by Jared Ortiz and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2021-01-12 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christians confess that Christ came to save us from sin and death. But what did he save us for? One beautiful and compelling answer to this question is that God saved us for union with him so that we might become “partakers of the divine nature” (1 Pet 2:4), what the Christian tradition has called “deification.” This term refers to a particular vision of salvation which claims that God wants to share his own divine life with us, uniting us to himself and transforming us into his likeness. While often thought to be either a heretical notion or the provenance of Eastern Orthodoxy, this book shows that deification is an integral part of Catholicism, Orthodoxy, and many Protestant denominations. Drawing on the resources of their own Christian heritages, eleven scholars share the riches of their respective traditions on the doctrine of deification. In this book , scholars and pastor-scholars from diverse Christian expressions write for both a scholarly and lay audience about what God created us to be: adopted children of God who are called, even now, to “be filled with all the fullness of God” (Eph. 3:19).

Author : Norman Russell
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191532711
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Doctrine of Deification in the Greek Patristic Tradition written by Norman Russell and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2005-01-21 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Stephen Finlan
Publisher : James Clarke & Company
ISBN 13 : 0227903544
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Theosis written by Stephen Finlan and published by James Clarke & Company. This book was released on 2010-02-25 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: '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.

Author : Paul M. Collins
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0567353117
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Partaking in Divine Nature written by Paul M. Collins and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2010-05-27 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With strong application and relevance to contemporary ecclesiological questions, this is an investigation of how understandings of theosis in the Christian Tradition have related to understandings of divine nature in terms of koinonia.

Author : Mark Edwards
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315439581
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Visions of God and Ideas on Deification in Patristic Thought written by Mark Edwards and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-10-26 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume illustrates the complexity and variety of early Christian thought on the subject of the image of God as a theological concept, and the difficulties that arise even in the interpretation of particular authors who gave a cardinal place to the image of God in their expositions of Christian doctrine. The first part illustrates both the presence and the absence of the image of God in the earliest Christian literature; the second examines various studies in deification, both implicit and explicit; the third explores the relation between iconography and the theological notion of the image

Author : David Russell Mosley
Publisher : Fortress Press
ISBN 13 : 1506410812
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Being Deified written by David Russell Mosley and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 2016-12-01 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Being Deified examines the importance of deification to Christian theology and the place of human creativity in deification. Deification is an explanatory force for the major categories of Christian theology: creation, fall, incarnation, theological anthropology, as well as the sacraments. Deification explains, in part, the why of creation and the what of humanity: God created in order to deify, humanity is created to be deified; the what of the Fall: the desire for divinity outside of God’s gifts; one of the purposes for the Incarnation: to deify; and what end the sacraments aid: deification. Essential to deification is human creativity for humans are created in the image of God, the Creator. In order to explore this dimension of deification, this essay focuses on works of poetry and fantasy, in many ways the pinnacle of human creativity since both genres cause the making strange of things familiar (language and creation itself) in part to make them better known, particularly as creations of the Creator.

Author : Paul M. Collins
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 056703187X
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Partaking in Divine Nature written by Paul M. Collins and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2010-07-29 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: >

Author : Vladimir Kharlamov
Publisher : James Clarke & Company
ISBN 13 : 0227900200
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Theosis written by Vladimir Kharlamov and published by James Clarke & Company. This book was released on 2012-02-23 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deification penetrates all spheres of human existence, and can be seen as an answer to most pending ultimate questions. It is essentially practical in its manifestation and uplifting in its content, but nevertheless, always evasive and arcane in itscomprehension. Aimed both at those who are already students of theosis and at those who are looking for an introductory text.