Divinization (Christian)

2201:"The principle of the order founded by the incarnation of the Word is the deification of the creature, to make the creature one with the Creator, so that the creature may participate in the divine life, which is love, and in the divine blessedness, the eternal and infinite blessedness of the holy and ineffable Trinity, the one ever-living God. Creation itself has no other purpose or end; and the incarnation of the Word, and the whole Christian order, are designed by the divine economy simply as the means to this end, which is indeed realized or consummated in Christ the Lord, at once perfect God and perfect man, indissolubly united in one divine person. The design of the Christian order is, through regeneration by the Holy Ghost, to unite every individual man to Christ, and to make all believers one with one another, and one with him, as he and the Father are one. All who are thus regenerated and united, are united to God, made one with him, live in his life, and participate in his infinite, eternal, and ineffable bliss or blessedness." 2059:. The process of divinization is the center of gravity around which move Rahner's understanding of creation, anthropology, Christology, ecclesiology, liturgy, and eschatology. The importance of this process for Rahner is such that we are justified in describing his overall theological project to be largely a matter of giving a coherent and contemporary account of divinization." Joshua Bloor in his article reveals the rise in deification from an array of Western traditions, looking closely at the Catholic Theologian Catherine LaCugna, arguing that LaCugna sees deification as "personal communion with God, which deifies the human in the process, conforming him/her into being Christ-like". 777: 2333:]." While this departure from traditional Lutheran thought is sometimes hailed as "the threshold of a third Luther Renaissance," other Lutheran scholars disagree and argue that the idea of theosis violates Luther's theology of the cross principles by ignoring the real distinction that is axiomatic for not only Luther, but for orthodox Christianity as a whole. One of the most prominent scholars is Robert Kolb, who primarily roots this critique in Luther's use of marriage metaphors concerning the Christian's relationship with God. Kolb writes "This view ignores the nature of the ‘union’ of bride and bridegroom that Luther employed so far." 2190:"In thus allowing God to work in it, the soul ... is at once illumined and transformed in God, and God communicates to it His supernatural Being, in such wise that it appears to be God Himself, and has all that God Himself has. And this union comes to pass when God grants the soul this supernatural favour, that all the things of God and the soul are one in participant transformation; and the soul seems to be God rather than a soul, and is indeed God by participation; although it is true that its natural being, though thus transformed, is as distinct from the Being of God as it was before." 2149:. According to these writings, mystical knowledge must be distinguished from the rational knowledge by which we know God, not in his nature, but through the wonderful order of the universe, which is a participation of the divine ideas. Through the more perfect knowledge of God that is mystical knowledge, a knowledge beyond the attainments of reason even enlightened by faith, the soul contemplates directly the mysteries of divine light. In the present life this contemplation is possible only to a few privileged souls, through a very special grace of God: it is the 196:(c. 150–215), wrote: "Yea, I say, the Word of God became a man so that you might learn from a man how to become a god." Clement further stated that "f one knows himself, he will know God, and knowing God will become like God. . . . His is beauty, true beauty, for it is God, and that man becomes a god, since God wills it. So Heraclitus was right when he said, 'Men are gods, and gods are men.'" Clement of Alexandria also stated that "he who obeys the Lord and follows the prophecy given through him ... becomes a god while still moving about in the flesh." 2642:

Western Church as a "remarkable event in the history of scholarship." Andreas Andreopoulos cites the 1910 Catholic Encyclopedia article by Fortescue as an example of how Barlaam's distrustful and hostile attitude regarding hesychasm survived until recently in the West, adding that now "the Western world has started to rediscover what amounts to a lost tradition. Hesychasm, which was never anything close to a scholar's pursuit, is now studied by Western theologians who are astounded by the profound thought and spirituality of late Byzantium."

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fifth century St Cyril of Alexandria says that we shall become sons 'by participation' (Greek methexis). Deification is the central idea in the spirituality of St. Maximus the Confessor, for whom the doctrine is the corollary of the Incarnation: 'Deification, briefly, is the encompassing and fulfillment of all times and ages,' ... and St. Symeon the New Theologian at the end of the tenth century writes, 'He who is God by nature converses with those whom he has made gods by grace, as a friend converses with his friends, face to face.' ...

2660:. The term "hesychasm", he said, refers to a practice of prayer marked by deep tranquillity of the spirit intent on contemplating God unceasingly by invoking the name of Jesus. While from a Catholic viewpoint there have been tensions concerning some developments of the practice, the Pope said, there is no denying the goodness of the intention that inspired its defence, which was to stress that man is offered the concrete possibility of uniting himself in his inner heart with God in that profound union of grace known as 2615:. This identification may have been motivated in part by the fact that "quietism" is the literal translation of "hesychasm". However, according to Kallistos Ware, "To translate 'hesychasm' as 'quietism', while perhaps etymologically defensible, is historically and theologically misleading." Ware asserts that "the distinctive tenets of the seventeenth century Western Quietists are not characteristic of Greek hesychasm." Elsewhere too, Ware argues that it is important not to translate "hesychasm" as "quietism". 2731:). Therefore the process of inheriting his glory is a process of learning. As a crucial step in this process, all of God's spirit children had the choice to come to earth in order to receive a body and continue their development. Latter-Day Saints believe that the fallen state of humanity (mortality) was not the result of an unplanned cancellation of God's plan for an eternal earthly paradise, rather it was a crucial step that provides the opportunity to learn and grow in the face of opposition ( 214:(354–430) said: "But he himself that justifies also deifies, for by justifying he makes sons of God. 'For he has given them power to become the sons of God' . If then we have been made sons of god, we have also been made gods." "To make human beings gods," Augustine said, "He was made man who was God" (sermon 192.1.1). Augustine goes on to write that " are not born of His Substance, that they should be the same as He, but that by favour they should come to Him... (Ibid)". 2427:

make the feeblest and filthiest of us into a god or goddess, dazzling, radiant, immortal creature, pulsating all through with such energy and joy and wisdom and love as we cannot now imagine, a bright stainless mirror which reflects back to God perfectly (though, of course, on a smaller scale) His own boundless power and delight and goodness. The process will be long and in parts very painful; but that is what we are in for. Nothing less. He meant what He said.

293:"And you shall be a companion of the Deity, and a co-heir with Christ, no longer enslaved by lusts or passions, and never again wasted by disease. For you have become God: for whatever sufferings you underwent while being a man, these He gave to you, because you were of mortal mould, but whatever it is consistent with God to impart, these God has promised to bestow upon you, because you have been deified, and begotten unto immortality." 5679: 2179:"They are like the burning coal that no one can put out once it is completely consumed in the furnace, because it has itself been turned into fire. So it is with these souls cast into the furnace of my charity, who keep nothing at all, not a bit of their own will, outside of me but are completely set afire in me. There is no one who can seize them or drag them out of my grace. They have been made one with me and I with them." 282:"For if He had made him immortal from the beginning, He would have made him God. Again, if He had made him mortal, God would seem to be the cause of his death. Neither, then, immortal nor yet mortal did He make him, but, as we have said above, capable of both; so that if he should incline to the things of immortality, keeping the commandment of God, he should receive as reward from Him immortality, and should become God..." 271:" were made like God, free from suffering and death, provided that they kept His commandments, and were deemed deserving of the name of His sons, and yet they, becoming like Adam and Eve, work out death for themselves; let the interpretation of the Psalm be held just as you wish, yet thereby it is demonstrated that all men are deemed worthy of becoming "gods," and of having power to become sons of the Highest." 458: 348:"Nothing in theosis is the product of human nature, for nature cannot comprehend God. It is only the mercy of God that has the capacity to endow theosis unto the existing... In theosis, man (the image of God) becomes likened to God, he rejoices in all the plenitude that does not belong to him by nature, because the grace of the Spirit triumphs within him, and because God acts in him." 327:"For just as He in Himself assimilated His own human nature to the power of the Godhead, being a part of the common nature, but not being subject to the inclination to sin which is in that nature (for it says: "He did no sin, nor was deceit found in his mouth), so, also, will He lead each person to union with the Godhead if they do nothing unworthy of union with the Divine." 208:(c. 296–373), stated his belief in literal deification: "The Word was made flesh in order that we might be made gods. ... Just as the Lord, putting on the body, became a man, so also we men are both deified through his flesh, and henceforth inherit everlasting life." Athanasius also observed: "For the Son of God became man so that we might become God." 734:, he argues that through our relationship with the Son we are brought into the same kind of relationship with the Father (and Spirit) that the Son has. He supports this argument by identifying a distinction between the Son's warm-fellowship with the Father, and his ontological union with the Father. He argues that the Greek Fathers, primarily 234:"'For we cast blame upon , because we have not been made gods from the beginning, but at first merely men, then at length gods; although God has adopted this course out of His pure benevolence, that no one may impute to Him invidiousness or grudgingness he declares, "I have said, Ye are gods; and all of you are sons of the Most High." " 2700:, through obedience to Christ and the gradual acquisition of knowledge, the faithful may eventually become heirs of God in the afterlife and "inherit all things" as Christ himself "inherited all things." Latter-Day Saints believe they will continue to worship and be subject to God the Father in the name of Christ in the afterlife. 2376:... a resemblance of the divine perfections, the image of the Almighty shining in the soul of man: ... a real participation of his nature, it is a beam of the eternal light, a drop of that infinite ocean of goodness; and they who are endued with it, may be said to have 'God dwelling in their souls', and 'Christ formed within them'. 361:"It follows, therefore, that He Who Is, The One Who Exists, is necessarily born of the flesh, taking all that is ours into himself so that all that is born of the flesh, that is us corruptible and perishing human beings, might rest in him. In short, he took what was ours to be his very own so that we might have all that was his." 2515:"The scriptures saith God will dwell in men, and walk in men … Doth not the Apostle say, the saints were partakers of the divine nature? And that God dwells in the saints, and Christ is in them, except they be reprobates? And do not the saints come to eat the flesh of Christ? And if they eat his flesh, is it not within them?" 2668:

Churches and is part of their common heritage. This can be summarized in the thought already expressed by Saint Irenaeus at the end of the second century: God passed into man so that man might pass over to God. This theology of divinization remains one of the achievements particularly dear to Eastern Christian thought."

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The 20th century saw a remarkable change in the attitude of Roman Catholic theologians to Palamas, a "rehabilitation" of him that has led to increasing parts of the Western Church considering him a saint, even if uncanonized. John Meyendorff describes the 20th-century rehabilitation of Palamas in the

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Based on their spiritual experiences and tested against the testimony of scripture, George Fox and early Quakers believed that transformation by the Holy Spirit was a normal experience within the early church, where individuals and communities were led by the living presence of Christ dwelling within

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Whoever is thus-minded and drinks the invisible wine out of the invisible Cup, mixed by God from the beginning of time through his Son, the Word, will become drunk. He does not know anything about himself any more, but becomes deified (vergottet) through the love of God while God becomes incarnate in

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The Catholic Church teaches that God gives to some souls, even in the present life, a very special grace by which they can be mystically united to God even while yet alive: this is true mystical contemplation. This is seen as the culmination of the three states, or stages, of perfection through which

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goes beyond simply restoring people to their state before the Fall of Adam and Eve, teaching that because Christ united the human and divine natures in Jesus' person, it is now possible for someone to experience closer fellowship with God than Adam and Eve initially experienced in the Garden of Eden,

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Do we cast blame on him because we were not made gods from the beginning, but were at first created merely as men, and then later as gods? Although God has adopted this course out of his pure benevolence, that no one may charge him with discrimination or stinginess, he declares, "I have said, Ye are

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repeatedly emphasized his respect for Eastern theology as an enrichment for the whole Church, declaring that, even after the painful division between the Christian East and the See of Rome, that theology has opened up profound thought-provoking perspectives of interest to the entire Church. He spoke

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For the early Anabaptist Matthias Servaes, baptism signified a dying to the old nature and "an incorporation into the unity of one mind, resulting in identical natures, patterned after God who is their Father, and becoming dead to the world, that is, to all unrighteousness and crucifying their flesh

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Like Athanasius, but with much more precision, Cyril distinguishes two kinds of unity between the Father and the Son. The first is a unity of substance, and the Father and the Son do not share this kind of unity with us in any way whatsoever. The second, though, is a unity of love or fellowship that

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Deification (Greek theosis) is for Orthodoxy the goal of every Christian. Man, according to the Bible, is 'made in the image and likeness of God.' ... It is possible for man to become like God, to become deified, to become god by grace. This doctrine is based on many passages of both OT and NT (e.g.

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Among the treasures of "the venerable and ancient tradition of the Eastern Churches" with which he said Catholics should be familiar, so as to be nourished by it, he mentioned in particular "the teaching of the Cappadocian Fathers on divinization (which) passed into the tradition of all the Eastern

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Mormons do not characterize the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit in terms of an immaterial, formless substance or essence that sets godhood apart as a separate genus from humanity. They believe that this classification of divinity was originated by post-apostolic theologians, whose speculations on God

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The command Be ye perfect is not idealistic gas. Nor is it a command to do the impossible. He is going to make us into creatures that can obey that command. He said (in the Bible) that we were "gods" and He is going to make good His words. If we let Him—for we can prevent Him, if we choose—He will

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The Word became flesh to make us "partakers of the divine nature": "For this is why the Word became man, and the Son of God became the Son of man: so that man, by entering into communion with the Word and thus receiving divine sonship, might become a son of God." "For the Son of God became man so

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The Jews answered him, saying, For a good work we stone thee not; but for blasphemy; and because that thou, being a man, makest thyself God. Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your law, I said, Ye are gods? If he called them gods, unto whom the word of God came, and the scripture cannot be

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Some Western scholars maintain that there is no conflict between Palamas's teaching and Roman Catholic thought, and some have incorporated the essence-energies distinction into their own thinking. For example, G. Philips asserts that the essence-energies distinction as presented by Palamas is "a

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The language of II Peter is taken up by St Irenaeus, in his famous phrase, 'if the Word has been made man, it is so that men may be made gods' (Adv. Haer V, Pref.), and becomes the standard in Greek theology. In the fourth century, St. Athanasius repeats Irenaeus almost word for word, and in the

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Now the gift of grace surpasses every capability of created nature, since it is nothing short of a partaking of the Divine Nature, which exceeds every other nature. And thus it is impossible that any creature should cause grace. For it is as necessary that God alone should deify, bestowing a

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Whereby, as before He of ours, so now we of His are made partakers. He clothed with our flesh, and we invested with His Spirit. The great promise of the Old Testament accomplished, that He should partake our human nature; and the great and precious promise of the New, that we should be

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is an important concept in Eastern Orthodox theology deriving from the fact that Eastern Orthodox theology is of an explicitly mystical character. Theology in the Eastern Orthodox Church is what is derived from saints or mystics of the tradition, and Eastern Orthodoxy considers that

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in theosis. It is important to note, however, that the divinization taught by Aquinas, Augustine, and other Fathers is not ontological, meaning that souls do not take on the substance of God, but rather through grace, are gifted with the participation in the Divine Life.

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We believe that God calls every believer to holiness that rises out of His character. We understand it to begin in the new birth, include a second work of grace that empowers, purifies and fills each person with the Holy Spirit, and continue in a lifelong pursuit.

380:"Through the medium of the mind he had dealings with the flesh, being made that God on earth, which is Man: Man and God blended. They became a single whole, the stronger side predominating, in order that I might be made God to the same extent that he was made man." 237:"For it was necessary, at first, that nature should be exhibited; then, after that, that what was mortal should be conquered and swallowed up by immortality, and the corruptible by incorruptibility, and that man should be made after the image and likeness of God." 2253:

In order to understand this yet more thoroughly, everyone should observe the similarity and fellowship of God and Christ with all believers; that is, that all believers are participants of the divine nature, yes, and are called gods and children of the Most High

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While Constantinople experienced a succession of councils alternately approving and condemning doctrine concerning hesychasm, the Western Church held no council in which to make a pronouncement on the issue, and the word "hesychasm" does not appear in the

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theology, divinization is emphasized among Catholics, as well as among Quakers who emphasize the living presence of Christ within each person and Christ-centered community. Methodists, whose religious tradition has always placed strong emphasis on

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of the Holy Spirit in the degree that they make themselves open to it by asceticism (divinization being not a one-sided act of God, but a loving cooperation between God and the advanced Christian, which Palamas considers a synergy). This

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declared this notion, "that man in this present life can acquire so great and such a degree of perfection that he will be rendered inwardly sinless, and that he will not be able to advance farther in grace" (Denzinger §471), to be a

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It is a serious thing to live in a society of possible gods and goddesses, to remember that the dullest and most uninteresting person you talk to may one day be a creature which, if you saw it now, you would be strongly tempted to

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is sometimes cited as important in keeping alive among Protestants the ideas central to the doctrine. In the introductory passages of his book, Scougal describes "religion" in terms that evoke the doctrine of theosis:

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exchange between the Son and the Christian. In general Fairbairn argues that the change that occurs in theosis is "something more than mere status but less than the possession of God's very substance." In his book,

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Hesychasm, then, which is centered on the enlightenment or deification (Θέωσις, or theosis, in Greek) of man perfectly encapsulates the soteriological principles and full scope of the spiritual life of the Eastern

2630:. In the same period, Siméon Vailhé described some aspects of the teaching of Palamas as "monstrous errors", "heresies" and "a resurrection of polytheism", and called the hesychast method for arriving at perfect 2720:) sons and daughters of Heavenly Father, and thus are all part of the same heavenly family. Because humans are literally God's children, they can also be heirs of his glory, and joint heirs with Jesus Christ ( 2168:

Deification, to which, in spite of its presence in the liturgical prayers of the West, Western theologians have given less attention than Eastern, is nevertheless prominent in the writing of Western mystics.

202:(c. 100–165) insisted that in the beginning men "were made like God, free from suffering and death," and that they are thus "deemed worthy of becoming gods and of having power to become sons of the highest." 2594: 556:

Ps. 82 (81).6; II Peter 1.4), and it is essentially the teaching both of St Paul, though he tends to use the language of filial adoption (cf. Rom. 8.9—17; Gal. 4.5—7), and the Fourth Gospel (cf. 17.21—23).

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There are several Bible verses which, if summarized state that, through Christ, men may become "heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ" and "will inherit all things" just as Christ inherits all things.

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He also wrote of God's "special love, whereby He draws the rational creature above the condition of its nature to a participation of the Divine good". and he ultimately roots the purpose of the

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as such is the goal, it is the purpose of life, and it is considered achievable only through a synergy (or cooperation) between humans' activities and God's uncreated energies (or operations).

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gods; and all of you are sons of the Most High." ... For it was necessary at first that nature be exhibited, then after that what was mortal would be conquered and swallowed up in immortality.

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wrote about the concept of theosis in many of their writings. Dirk Philips explained, for example, that although humans cannot become God, per se, they can become like Him in character:

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Likewise, he argues that the mediator "pleads even now as Man for my salvation; for He continues to wear the Body which He assumed, until He make me God by the power of His Incarnation."

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4.38 (4); compare 4.11 (2): "But man receives progression and increase towards God. For as God is always the same, so also man, when found in God, shall always progress towards God."

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Stromata 716,101,4 (Ed. Stählin): ὁ τῷ κυρίῳ πειθόμενος καὶ τῇ δοθείσῃ δι' αὐτοῦ κατακολουθήσας προφητείᾳ τελέως ἐκτελεῖται κατ' εἰκόνα τοῦ διδασκάλου ἐν σαρκὶ περιπολῶν θεός

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is most important as a way to establish a direct relationship with God. Living in the community of the church and partaking regularly of the sacraments, and especially the

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that we might become God." "The only-begotten Son of God, wanting to make us sharers in his divinity, assumed our nature, so that he, made man, might make men gods."

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and that people can become more like God than Adam and Eve were at that time. Some Eastern Orthodox theologians go so far as to say that Jesus would have become

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There has been a modern revival of the concept of theosis (often called "manifest sonship" or "Christedness") among Christians who hold to the doctrine of

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Augustine, On the Psalms, 50.2. Augustine insists that such individuals are gods by grace rather than by nature, but they are "called gods" nevertheless.

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Jeffrey D. Finch claims that "the future of East-West rapprochement appears to be overcoming the modern polemics of neo-scholasticism and neo-Palamism".

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says that "we all, with unveiled face, beholding the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another."

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This shall be the covenant that I will make with them. I will set my law within them and write it on their hearts, and all of them shall know me.

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More recently, the Finnish school of Lutheran thought has drawn close associations between theosis and justification. Primarily spearheaded by

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or co-operation between God and Man does not lead to mankind being absorbed into God as was taught in earlier pagan forms of deification like

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daily, no longer allowing sin to reign or have the upper hand in them, as Paul clearly tells the Romans (Chapter 6), with many clear words."

1967: 680:. It is considered that no one can reach theosis without an impeccable Christian living, crowned by faithful, warm, and, ultimately, silent ( 4743: 4724: 5310: 2547: 2286:, of the piety, glory, and purity of eternal life, and they will be purified as God, shine as God shines, and live as God lives eternally. 4678:"Pope John Paul II and the East Pope John Paul II. "Eastern Theology Has Enriched the Whole Church" (11 August 1996). English translation" 776: 2076:" ("By the mystery of this water and wine may we come to share in the divinity of Christ who humbled himself to share in our humanity.") 5505: 4694: 432:

broken; Say ye of him, whom the Father hath sanctified, and sent into the world, Thou blasphemest; because I said, I am the Son of God?

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In a more complete statement on his beliefs in literal deification, C.S. Lewis stated in his book, "Mere Christianity" as follows:

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to describe the spiritual transformation of a Christian. The change of human nature was understood by them as a consequence of a

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is identified with the vision of the uncreated Light, the uncreated energy of God, with the union of man with God, with man's

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and outside the Methodist tradition, it continues to be controversial among to this day among other Christian denominations.

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Per huius aquae et vini mysterium eius efficiamur divinitatis consortes, qui humanitatis nostrae fieri dignatus est particeps

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has never been officially condemned by the Catholic Church, Western theologians tended to reject it, often equating it with

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Through this knowledge, a person is led to God, is grafted into him, and becomes a fellow member of his nature and essence.

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him (vermenscht). This what is meant when we speak of the eating of body and the drinking of the blood of Christ (John 6).

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typical example of a perfectly admissible theological pluralism" that is compatible with the Roman Catholic magisterium.

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teaches, in summary, that it is the Christian's goal, in principle possible to achieve, to live without any (voluntary)

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might become ...". Grammatically, the verb θεοποιηθῶμεν could be translated as "be made God" Himself or "be made gods."

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partaking of the Divine Nature by a participated likeness, as it is impossible that anything save fire should enkindle.

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Whenever now human beings become participants in the divine nature, yes, conformed to Christ on earth and in heaven

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movements. The statement of faith of the Christian Universalist Association includes theosis in one of its points.

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Ware, Kallistos (2000), "Eastern Orthodox Theology", in Hastings, Adrian; Mason, Alistair; Pyper, Hugh (eds.),

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Deification in Eastern Orthodox theology : an evaluation and critique of the theology of Dumitru Stăniloae

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Kapsanis, George (n.d.): Deification as the Purpose of Man's Life, English translation by Photius Coutsoukis

2755:). Latter-Day Saints believe that the Father and the Son both possess glorified, immortal, physical bodies ( 2736: 2287: 2279: 2268: 2165:

too taught a deification of man and an assimilation of the creature into the Creator through contemplation.

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in its regard prevailed among Western theologians, surviving into the early 20th century, as shown in

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Latter-Day Saints believe that the "glory of God is intelligence, in other words, light and truth" (

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the father and the Son have enjoyed from all eternity precisely because of their unity of substance.

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in the Eastern Orthodox Church is centered on the enlightenment or deification, theosis of man.

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George Fox – Great Mystery of the Great Whore in the Works of George Fox, volume 3, pp. 181-182

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Confession of Our Religion, Teaching, and Faith by the Brothers Who Are Known as the Hutterites

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were clear that we never share ontological union with God, but only this intimate fellowship.

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was originally used in Greco-Roman pagan society to venerate a ruler. It was inconceivable to

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Orthodox and Roman Catholic Relations from the Fourth Crusade to the Hesychastic Controversy

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Peter Riedemann's Hutterite Confession of Faith: Translation of the 1565 German Edition of

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implores humankind to "become gods for (God's) sake, since (God) became man for our sake.".

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Patristic scholar Donald Fairbairn has argued that theosis in the Greek Fathers is not an

8: 5739: 5683: 4561:. John Meyendorff (ed.). Translated by Nicholas Gendle. New York: Paulist Press. p. 3299: 3278: 2835: 2619: 2618:

For long, Palamism won almost no following in the West,. and the distrustful attitude of

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that became Anabaptists, the concept of divinization was also taught. In his confession,

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Of a more modern Roman Catholic theologian it has been said: "The theological vision of

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The teaching about deification of a Christian can be found as early as in the works of

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Christ's defence against the charge of blasphemy includes the following passages from

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is characteristic of Eastern Christian thought. Western Christianity, at least since

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were highly influential in the West, and their theses and arguments were adopted by

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in the prayer said by the deacon or priest when preparing the Eucharistic chalice: "

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From Man to God: an L.D.S. Scientist Views Creation, Progression, and Exaltation

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taught in numerous passages that men are sons of God (as in chapter 8 of Paul's

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On God and Christ: The Five Theological Orations and Two Letters to Cledonius

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explained that holding spiritual communion with Christ would deify a person:

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There were many different references to divinization in the writings of the

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teaches, the Christian mystics are deified as they become filled with the

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no one who does not follow the path of union with God can be a theologian.

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A minority of charismatic Christian universalists believe that the "

668:", and prayer that never ceases, as Paul exhorts the Thessalonians ( 5930: 4156:

Dyck, C. J., Keeney, W. E., Beachy, A. J., eds. (1 February 1992).

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Clement of Alexandria, The Instructor, 3.1. See his Stromateis, 23.

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Justification: The Doctrine of Karl Barth and a Catholic Reflection

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The Difference Between Orthodox Spirituality and Other Traditions

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Bloor, J. D. A. (2015), "New Directions in Western Soteriology",

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Theosis as a doctrine developed in a distinctive direction among

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were influenced by Greek metaphysical philosophers such as the

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Deos facturus qui homines erant, homo factus est qui Deus erat

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for this reason alone, even if Adam and Eve had never sinned.

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in France. For example, in the preface to his apologetic work

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An Introductory Dictionary of Theology and Religious Studies

149:: "He was made human so that he might make us sons of god" ( 4831:

Christensen, Michael J.; Wittung, Jeffery A., eds. (2007),

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According to the founder of the Latter-Day Saint movement,

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According to Hierotheos Vlachos, divinization, also called

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Millet, Robert; Reynolds, Noel; Dahl, Larry, eds. (1999),

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Factus est quod sumus nos, uti nos perficeret quod et ipse

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Catholic theology (including Latin and Eastern Churches)

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stated that "becoming a god is the highest goal of all"

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Other references to divinization in the writings of the

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says of Christians as partakers of the divine nature:

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in saying "Ye are gods and children of the most high."

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movement which reawakened Protestant interest in the

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The Westminster Dictionary of Christian Spirituality

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Clement of Alexandria, Exhortation to the Greeks, 1.

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universalists with New Age leanings share a similar

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Crestwood, NY: St. Vladimir's Seminary Press. 4867:The Christian Universalist Association (2012b), 4851:The Christian Universalist Association (2012a), 4550: 3369: 3172: 2607:Despite the fact that the hesychast doctrine of 2214:wrote quite extensively on the idea of theosis. 313:"For He was made man that we might be made God." 5192:Mannermaa, Tuomo (2005), Stjerna, Kirsi (ed.), 4977:Espín, Orlando; Nickoloff, James, eds. (2007), 4912: 4508: 4506: 4087: 4085: 4083: 4006:Grace, Actual and Habitual: A Dogmatic Treatise 3479: 3234: 4976: 4062: 3872: 3470: 3207: 3049: 3022: 2878: 2448:of the early Catholic Church, and some of the 5708: 5506: 4919:The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church 4462:. St Vladimir's Seminary Press. p. 102. 3464: 2580: 1961: 5355:"Calvin's Doctrine of Our Union with Christ" 5253:, Harrisburg: Morehouse Publishing company, 5140:, Crestwood: St. Vladimir's Seminary Press, 4887: 4771:, Crestwood: St. Vladimir's Seminary Press, 4764: 4611: 4585: 4524: 4503: 4415: 4405:The Christian Universalist Association 2012b 4394:The Christian Universalist Association 2012a 4080: 4015:communicable attributes of god pohle preuss. 3537:. Westminster John Knox Press. p. 295. 3155: 2671: 2543:, especially those with a background in the 549:Westminster Dictionary of Christian Theology 179:As previously noted, in the second century, 5138:The Mystical Theology of the Eastern Church 4344: 4342: 4002: 3628:Athanasius, Against the Arians, 1.39, 3.34. 3502:Augustine through the Ages. An Encyclopedia 2766: 2357:. This was especially so in the thought of 2156: 2150: 2113: 2099: 2085: 2071: 5715: 5701: 5513: 5499: 5178:, Scranton: University of Scranton Press, 4913:Cross, F L; Livingston, E A, eds. (1997), 4256:, p. 183, quoting Dr. Ulrich Asendorf 3813:"Deification as the Purpose of Man's Life" 3637:St. Athanasius, De inc. 54, 3: PG 25, 192B 3556: 3554: 3531:"Excursus: The Redeemer in God's Eternity" 2452:traditions of the West. Distinctively, in 1968: 1954: 467:(the steps toward theosis as described by 157:1.39). Divinization in the context of the 5538:Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople 5520: 5452:The Oxford Companion to Christian Thought 5329: 5191: 5030: 5012: 4997:Grace and Christology in the Early Church 4994: 4733:(Salt Lake City, Utah, LDS Church, 2009). 4512: 4482: 4427: 4241: 4180: 4115: 3966: 3954: 3748: 3619:Justin Martyr, Dialogue with Trypho, 124. 2968: 1818:A Dialogue of Comfort against Tribulation 5209: 5099: 4789:, Carlisle, Cumbria: Paternoster Press, 4624:. Oxford University Press. p. 186. 4339: 4253: 4229: 4050: 3887:Latter-day Christianity: 10 Basic Issues 3436: 3386: 456: 5722: 5438:, Orthodox Christian Information Center 5431: 5289: 5266: 5173: 5154:Ludlow, Daniel, ed. (1992), "Godhood", 5089:. Bountiful, Utah: Horizon Publishers. 4314:The Weight of Glory and Other Addresses 4288: 4091: 3943: 3921: 3551: 2345:, thought was given to the doctrine of 1908:Tractatus de Purgatorio Sancti Patricii 708: 5946: 5412: 5248: 5153: 5135: 5104:, New York: Fordham University Press, 5056: 4953: 4784: 4536: 4354:Bible Methodist Connection of Churches 4128:Riedemann, P., Friesen, J. J. (1999). 4103: 4074: 4003:Pohle, Joseph; Preuss, Arthur (1917). 3932: 3857: 3846: 3835: 3652:, 25, 192 B De incarnatione Verbi, 54 3495: 3128: 3101: 3074: 2596:Enchiridion Symbolorum et Definitionum 2585:The practice of ascetic prayer called 2495:was sharply criticized by many in the 2477:Bible Methodist Connection of Churches 2454:Methodist (Wesleyan-Arminian) theology 2205: 613:As a patristic and historical teaching 32:For the Eastern Orthodox concept, see 5696: 5494: 5120:Martin Luther: Confessor of the Faith 5017:, Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press, 4802: 4621:Oxford Companion to Christian Thought 4546: 4544: 4300: 4038: 3491: 3489: 3487: 3418:Plain Account of Christian Perfection 2689:includes a belief in the doctrine of 2431: 392: 84: 5448: 5338:, Encyclopedia Press, archived from 5275:, Encyclopedia Press, archived from 5160:, vol. 3, New York: Macmillan, 5117: 5042:, Encyclopedia Press, archived from 4962:, Encyclopedia Press, archived from 4617: 4455: 4265: 3528: 2830: 2800: 2626:'s article on hesychasm in the 1910 2598:(Handbook of Creeds and Definitions) 2380: 2336: 2314: 609:(vision of God) and by revelation." 551:, as quoted by Millet and Reynolds: 5455:, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 5421:, New York: Robert Appleton Company 5352: 5308: 5122:, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 4999:, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 4921:, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 4382: 4277: 3394:, Oxford: J H Parker, p. 109, 3321:"Third Part, Question 1, Article 2" 3056:The Discourse on the Holy Theophany 2602:Heinrich Joseph Dominicus Denzinger 633: 585:is the vision of the glory of God. 581:(vision) of the Uncreated Light". " 481:Theosis (Eastern Orthodox theology) 452: 47:("divinization" may also refer to 34:Theosis (Eastern Orthodox theology) 13: 5336:The Original Catholic Encyclopedia 5295:The Life of God in the Soul of Man 5273:The Original Catholic Encyclopedia 5040:The Original Catholic Encyclopedia 4981:, Collegeville: Liturgical Press, 4960:The Original Catholic Encyclopedia 4744:"Gospel Topics: Becoming Like God" 4707:"What Happened to Christ's Church" 4551:Jaroslav Pelikan (1983). Preface. 4541: 4489:. World Wisdom, Inc. p. 261. 3980:"Sermo 192,1 — 'In natali Domini'" 3484: 3411: 2506: 2369:The Life of God in the Soul of Man 2023:Arguably the most prolific of the 138:was an author of the phrase about 14: 5980: 5387: 5332:"Dionysius the Pseudo-Areopagite" 4325:Lewis, Mere Christianity, 174—75. 3500:. In Fitzgerald, Allan D. (ed.). 1878:The Miracle of Our Lady of Fatima 1823:From Willow Creek to Sacred Heart 5677: 5561: 4736: 4725:"Chapter 2: Our Heavenly Family" 4718: 4699: 4670: 3430: 3245:Catechism of the Catholic Church 3217:Exposition on the Book of Psalms 2739:). Those who endure to the end ( 2011:Catechism of the Catholic Church 1893:On the Consolation of Philosophy 1873:Calls from the Message of Fatima 775: 566: 206:Athanasius, bishop of Alexandria 61:, is the transforming effect of 5469:The Wild Things of God (2012), 5353:Tan, Seng-Kong (October 2003), 5212:Concordia Theological Quarterly 5196:, Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 4595: 4530: 4476: 4449: 4434:. 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(1989). 4335:The Wild Things of God 2012 3749:Nazianzus, Gregory (2002). 3498:"Deification, Divinization" 3480:Cross & Livingston 1997 3080:"Discourse I, Paragraph 39" 2400:"consortes divinae naturae" 2125:The writings attributed to 1868:Fatima in Lucia's Own Words 1838:The Ladder of Divine Ascent 473:Saint Catherine's Monastery 464:The Ladder of Divine Ascent 10: 5985: 5543:Patriarchate of Alexandria 5176:The Undreamed has Happened 5100:Johnston, William (1990), 5013:Fairbairn, Donald (2009), 4995:Fairbairn, Donald (2003), 4695:Original text (in Italian) 4063:Espín & Nickoloff 2007 3465:Secondary source citations 3032:Refutation of all Heresies 2867:Exhortation to the Heathen 2789:The Ascent of Mount Carmel 2781:St. John of the Cross, OCD 2675: 2581:Western views on hesychasm 2522: 1898:The Mirror of Simple Souls 1848:Revelations of Divine Love 637: 484: 478: 31: 25: 18: 5730: 5674: 5623: 5599: 5570: 5559: 5553:Patriarchate of Jerusalem 5528: 5419:The Catholic Encyclopedia 5136:Lossky, Vladimir (2002), 4854:Our Spiritual Perspective 2836:"Book 4, Chapter XXXVIII" 2672:Latter Day Saint theology 2157: 2151: 2114: 2100: 2086: 1903:Sister Catherine Treatise 1744:Reflection on the New Age 1183:Symeon the New Theologian 907:Invoking of Mystic Saints 5390:"Theosis and Exaltation" 5267:Sauvage, George (1913), 5249:Plater, Ormonde (1992), 5174:Maloney, George (2003), 4870:Human Nature and Destiny 4817:10.1177/0040571X14564932 4618:Ware, Kallistos (2000). 4456:Ware, Kallistos (2000). 3724:Cyril of Alexandria 1995 3712:Cyril of Alexandria 1995 3700:Cyril of Alexandria 1995 2767:Primary source citations 2535:universal reconciliation 2529:Universal reconciliation 2512:them. 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Herder. p. 3796:1 Corinthians 3:21–23 3001:"Book II, Chapter 27" 2997:Theophilus of Antioch 2943:Clement of Alexandria 2916:Clement of Alexandria 2893:"Book III, Chapter I" 2889:Clement of Alexandria 2859:Clement of Alexandria 2658:hesychast controversy 2656:in particular of the 2628:Catholic Encyclopedia 2482:In 1311 the Catholic 2472: 2458:entire sanctification 2424: 2415: 2395: 2374: 2303: 2251: 2224: 2199: 2188: 2184:St. John of the Cross 2177: 2080:the soul passes: the 2036: 2016: 1913:The Vision of Adamnán 1733:Aspects of meditation 807:Catholic spirituality 744: 720:entire sanctification 644:Maximus the Confessor 559: 553: 460: 429: 407:2 Corinthians 3:17–18 403:Epistle to the Romans 344:Maximus the Confessor 277:Theophilus of Antioch 243:Clement of Alexandria 194:Clement of Alexandria 185: 5765:Conditional Security 3028:"Book X, Chapter 30" 2978:Dialogue with Trypho 2749:baptism for the dead 2548:Latter Rain Movement 2493:Christian perfection 2467:Christian perfection 2222:wrote, for example: 1762:Literature and media 1607:Bernadette Soubirous 1364:Beatrice of Nazareth 1303:Beatrice of Nazareth 1168:Bernard of Clairvaux 709:Western Christianity 370:Gregory of Nazianzus 5724:Christian salvation 5472:Our True Final Hope 5015:Life in the Trinity 3739:30.14 (NPNF2 7:315) 3529:Küng, Hans (2004). 2947:"Book V, Chapter X" 2387:English Reformation 2206:Anabaptist theology 1858:Theologia Germanica 1853:The Story of a Soul 1828:The Glories of Mary 1808:The Interior Castle 1706:Charles de Foucauld 1318:John van Ruysbroeck 1178:Hildegard of Bingen 1037:(by era or century) 882:Spiritual direction 769:Christian mysticism 740:Cyril of Alexandria 732:Life in the Trinity 666:prayer of the heart 354:Cyril of Alexandria 167:Cyril of Alexandria 3957:, pp. 100–101 3773:Basil of Caesarea 3392:Ninety-Six Sermons 3388:Lancelot, Andrewes 3375:Our Lady of Lordes 3338:Catherine of Siena 3209:Augustine of Hippo 3138:On the Incarnation 3111:Against the Arians 3084:Against the Arians 3051:Hippolytus of Rome 3024:Hippolytus of Rome 2456:, the doctrine of 2432:Methodist theology 2161:(mystical union). 2143:St. Thomas Aquinas 2135:Alexander of Hales 2032:St. Thomas Aquinas 1986:Augustine of Hippo 1793:Spiritual Canticle 1628:Thérèse of Lisieux 1612:Conchita de Armida 1530:John of St. Samson 1520:Charles de Condren 1510:Jean-Jacques Olier 1463:Catherine of Genoa 1429:Francisco de Osuna 1423:Ignatius of Loyola 1376:Catherine of Siena 1106:Arsenius the Great 997:Passive asceticism 477: 393:Biblical citations 333:Augustine of Hippo 288:Hippolytus of Rome 212:Augustine of Hippo 85:Patristic writings 41:Christian theology 5941: 5940: 5921:Union with Christ 5690: 5689: 5591:Church of Albania 5359:Quodlibet Journal 5167:978-0-02-904040-9 5032:Fortescue, Adrian 4946:978-0-88141-133-1 4844:978-0-8386-4111-8 4730:Gospel Principles 4586:Andreopoulos 2005 4572:978-0-8091-2447-3 4525:Andreopoulos 2005 4496:978-0-941532-43-3 4469:978-0-88141-209-3 4459:The inner kingdom 4441:978-0-664-22170-6 4416:Chrysostomos 2001 4192:978-0-915138-15-9 3878:Reynolds, Noel B. 3874:Millet, Robert L. 3777:9.23 (NPNF2 8:16) 3760:978-0-88141-240-6 3650:Patrologia Graeca 3564:, book 5, preface 3562:Adversus haereses 2806:"Book 5, Preface" 2653:Pope John Paul II 2571:liberal Christian 2497:Church of England 2484:Council of Vienne 2391:Lancelot Andrewes 2381:Anglican theology 2347:union with Christ 2341:Early during the 2337:Reformed theology 2315:Lutheran theology 1978: 1977: 1798:Way of Perfection 1753: 1752: 1674:Faustina Kowalska 1592:Catherine Labouré 1572: 1571: 1560:Veronica Giuliani 1515:Louis de Montfort 1505:Pierre de Bérulle 1470: 1469: 1445:John of the Cross 1393: 1392: 1386:Marguerite Porete 1370:Bridget of Sweden 1280:Julian of Norwich 1254:Angela of Foligno 1234:Francis of Assisi 1216:Dominic de Guzmán 1116:Macarius of Egypt 1101:Anthony the Great 991:Religious ecstasy 986:Spiritual dryness 913:Active asceticism 817:Mystical theology 715:Western Christian 547:According to the 497:Eastern Orthodoxy 469:St. John Climacus 443:Revelation 2:7–11 386:Basil of Caesarea 127:Adversus Haereses 79:John of the Cross 5976: 5717: 5710: 5703: 5694: 5693: 5682: 5681: 5586:Church of Cyprus 5581:Church of Greece 5565: 5515: 5508: 5501: 5492: 5491: 5486: 5485: 5484: 5475:, archived from 5465: 5445: 5444: 5443: 5428: 5427: 5426: 5409: 5408: 5407: 5398:, archived from 5384: 5383: 5382: 5373:, archived from 5349: 5348: 5347: 5326: 5325: 5324: 5315:, archived from 5305: 5286: 5285: 5284: 5263: 5245: 5244: 5243: 5219: 5206: 5188: 5170: 5150: 5132: 5114: 5082: 5081: 5080: 5065: 5053: 5052: 5051: 5027: 5009: 4991: 4973: 4972: 4971: 4950: 4931: 4909: 4903: 4902: 4896: 4884: 4883: 4882: 4873:, archived from 4863: 4862: 4861: 4847: 4827: 4799: 4781: 4752: 4751: 4740: 4734: 4722: 4716: 4715:, February 2005. 4703: 4697: 4693: 4691: 4689: 4680:. 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28:Sanctification 15: 9: 6: 4: 3: 2: 5981: 5970: 5967: 5965: 5962: 5960: 5957: 5955: 5952: 5951: 5949: 5932: 5929: 5928: 5927: 5924: 5922: 5919: 5917: 5914: 5912: 5909: 5907: 5904: 5902: 5899: 5897: 5894: 5892: 5889: 5887: 5884: 5882: 5879: 5877: 5874: 5872: 5869: 5867: 5864: 5862: 5859: 5857: 5856: 5852: 5850: 5849:Mortification 5847: 5845: 5842: 5840: 5837: 5835: 5834:Justification 5832: 5830: 5827: 5823: 5820: 5818: 5815: 5814: 5813: 5810: 5808: 5807:Glorification 5805: 5803: 5800: 5798: 5795: 5793: 5792: 5788: 5786: 5783: 5781: 5778: 5776: 5773: 5771: 5768: 5766: 5763: 5761: 5758: 5756: 5753: 5751: 5748: 5746: 5743: 5741: 5738: 5736: 5733: 5732: 5729: 5725: 5718: 5713: 5711: 5706: 5704: 5699: 5698: 5695: 5685: 5680: 5673: 5667: 5666:Since 2008 AD 5664: 5662: 5659: 5657: 5654: 5652: 5649: 5647: 5644: 5642: 5639: 5637: 5634: 5632: 5629: 5628: 5626: 5622: 5616: 5613: 5611: 5608: 5607: 5605: 5602: 5598: 5592: 5589: 5587: 5584: 5582: 5579: 5578: 5576: 5573: 5572:Autocephalous 5569: 5564: 5554: 5551: 5549: 5546: 5544: 5541: 5539: 5536: 5535: 5533: 5531: 5530:Patriarchates 5527: 5523: 5516: 5511: 5509: 5504: 5502: 5497: 5496: 5493: 5479:on 2012-10-11 5478: 5474: 5473: 5467: 5464: 5458: 5454: 5453: 5447: 5437: 5436: 5430: 5420: 5416: 5411: 5402:on 2011-08-11 5401: 5397: 5396: 5391: 5386: 5377:on 2012-10-30 5376: 5372: 5368: 5364: 5360: 5356: 5351: 5342:on 2012-10-19 5341: 5337: 5333: 5328: 5319:on 2013-04-30 5318: 5314: 5313: 5307: 5304: 5300: 5296: 5292: 5288: 5279:on 2012-10-19 5278: 5274: 5270: 5265: 5262: 5256: 5252: 5247: 5238: 5232: 5228: 5227: 5221: 5217: 5213: 5208: 5205: 5199: 5195: 5190: 5187: 5181: 5177: 5172: 5169: 5163: 5159: 5158: 5152: 5149: 5143: 5139: 5134: 5131: 5125: 5121: 5116: 5113: 5107: 5103: 5098: 5096: 5092: 5088: 5084: 5075: 5069: 5062: 5061: 5055: 5046:on 2013-12-24 5045: 5041: 5037: 5033: 5029: 5026: 5020: 5016: 5011: 5008: 5002: 4998: 4993: 4990: 4984: 4980: 4975: 4966:on 2012-11-03 4965: 4961: 4957: 4952: 4948: 4942: 4938: 4933: 4930: 4924: 4920: 4916: 4915:"Deification" 4911: 4908: 4893: 4892: 4886: 4877:on 2019-09-21 4876: 4872: 4871: 4865: 4856: 4855: 4849: 4846: 4840: 4836: 4835: 4829: 4826: 4822: 4818: 4814: 4810: 4806: 4801: 4798: 4792: 4788: 4783: 4780: 4778:0-88141-295-3 4774: 4770: 4769: 4768:Metamorphosis 4763: 4762: 4749: 4745: 4739: 4732: 4731: 4726: 4721: 4714: 4713: 4708: 4702: 4696: 4684:on 2016-04-12 4683: 4679: 4673: 4666: 4662: 4657: 4650: 4646: 4641: 4633: 4631:0-19-860024-0 4627: 4623: 4622: 4614: 4607: 4603: 4598: 4591: 4587: 4582: 4574: 4568: 4564: 4560: 4556: 4555: 4547: 4545: 4538: 4533: 4526: 4521: 4515:, p. 301 4514: 4509: 4507: 4498: 4492: 4488: 4487: 4479: 4471: 4465: 4461: 4460: 4452: 4443: 4437: 4433: 4432: 4424: 4418:, p. 206 4417: 4412: 4406: 4401: 4395: 4390: 4384: 4379: 4370: 4355: 4351: 4350:"Core Values" 4345: 4343: 4336: 4331: 4322: 4315: 4312:C. 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Lewis, 4309: 4302: 4297: 4290: 4285: 4279: 4274: 4268:, p. 128 4267: 4262: 4255: 4254:Marquart 2000 4250: 4243: 4238: 4232:, p. 183 4231: 4230:Marquart 2000 4226: 4218: 4216:1-884732-05-4 4212: 4208: 4202: 4194: 4188: 4184: 4177: 4169: 4167:0-8361-3111-8 4163: 4159: 4152: 4144: 4142:0-8361-3122-3 4138: 4134: 4131: 4124: 4117: 4112: 4106:, p. 254 4105: 4100: 4094:, p. 663 4093: 4088: 4086: 4084: 4076: 4071: 4065:, p. 614 4064: 4059: 4052: 4051:Johnston 1990 4047: 4040: 4035: 4028: 4023: 4016: 4012: 4008: 4007: 3999: 3985: 3984:augustinus.it 3981: 3975: 3968: 3963: 3956: 3951: 3945: 3940: 3934: 3929: 3923: 3918: 3911: 3907: 3903: 3897: 3893: 3889: 3888: 3883: 3879: 3875: 3869: 3867: 3859: 3854: 3848: 3843: 3837: 3832: 3818: 3814: 3808: 3801: 3797: 3793: 3792:Galatians 4:7 3789: 3783: 3776: 3775:On the Spirit 3770: 3762: 3756: 3752: 3745: 3738: 3732: 3726:, p. 80. 3725: 3720: 3714:, p. 59. 3713: 3708: 3702:, p. 63. 3701: 3696: 3689: 3684: 3678: 3673: 3664: 3657: 3653: 3651: 3643: 3634: 3625: 3616: 3607: 3598: 3589: 3582: 3576: 3569: 3565: 3563: 3557: 3555: 3546: 3544:9780664224462 3540: 3536: 3532: 3525: 3517: 3515:9780802838438 3511: 3507: 3503: 3499: 3492: 3490: 3488: 3481: 3476: 3474: 3469: 3449: 3448:Eastern Light 3445: 3444: 3439: 3433: 3420: 3419: 3414: 3408: 3401: 3397: 3393: 3389: 3383: 3376: 3372: 3366: 3359: 3353: 3349: 3345: 3344: 3339: 3333: 3326: 3322: 3318: 3312: 3305: 3301: 3297: 3291: 3284: 3280: 3276: 3270: 3257: 3251: 3247: 3244: 3241: 3240:"Article 460" 3237: 3231: 3218: 3214: 3210: 3204: 3191: 3189:9780813211589 3185: 3181: 3180: 3175: 3169: 3162: 3158: 3152: 3139: 3135: 3131: 3125: 3112: 3108: 3104: 3098: 3085: 3081: 3077: 3071: 3058: 3057: 3052: 3046: 3033: 3029: 3025: 3019: 3006: 3002: 2998: 2992: 2979: 2975: 2971: 2970:Justin Martyr 2965: 2952: 2948: 2944: 2938: 2925: 2921: 2917: 2911: 2898: 2894: 2890: 2884: 2882: 2868: 2864: 2860: 2854: 2841: 2837: 2833: 2827: 2825: 2811: 2807: 2803: 2797: 2790: 2786: 2782: 2776: 2772: 2764: 2762: 2758: 2754: 2753:D&C 50:24 2750: 2746: 2742: 2741:Matthew 24:13 2738: 2734: 2730: 2729:D&C 93:36 2725: 2723: 2719: 2718:Acts 17:28–29 2715: 2711: 2707: 2706:Neoplatonists 2701: 2699: 2694: 2692: 2688: 2683: 2679: 2669: 2665: 2663: 2659: 2654: 2650: 2647: 2643: 2639: 2637: 2633: 2632:contemplation 2629: 2625: 2621: 2616: 2614: 2610: 2605: 2603: 2599: 2597: 2590: 2588: 2578: 2576: 2572: 2568: 2567:millennialism 2564: 2559: 2557: 2553: 2549: 2546: 2542: 2541: 2540:apocatastasis 2536: 2530: 2526: 2516: 2513: 2504: 2502: 2498: 2494: 2490: 2485: 2479: 2478: 2471: 2469: 2468: 2463: 2459: 2455: 2451: 2447: 2443: 2439: 2428: 2423: 2419: 2414: 2412: 2407: 2405: 2401: 2394: 2392: 2388: 2377: 2373: 2370: 2366: 2365:Henry Scougal 2362: 2360: 2356: 2352: 2348: 2344: 2334: 2332: 2331: 2326: 2322: 2312: 2307: 2302: 2300: 2296: 2290: 2289: 2285: 2281: 2277: 2274: 2270: 2267: 2263: 2260: 2257: 2250: 2248: 2244: 2240: 2234: 2232: 2229: 2223: 2221: 2217: 2213: 2202: 2198: 2196: 2191: 2187: 2185: 2180: 2176: 2174: 2170: 2166: 2164: 2148: 2144: 2140: 2136: 2132: 2131:Peter Lombard 2128: 2123: 2121: 2111: 2107: 2097: 2093: 2083: 2082:purgative way 2077: 2074: 2069: 2065: 2060: 2058: 2054: 2049: 2046: 2040: 2035: 2033: 2030:theologians, 2029: 2026: 2020: 2015: 2013: 2012: 2007: 2003: 1999: 1995: 1991: 1987: 1983: 1971: 1966: 1964: 1959: 1957: 1952: 1951: 1949: 1948: 1941: 1938: 1934: 1931: 1929: 1926: 1924: 1921: 1920: 1919: 1918:Divine Comedy 1916: 1914: 1911: 1909: 1906: 1904: 1901: 1899: 1896: 1894: 1891: 1889: 1886: 1884: 1883:Sol de Fátima 1881: 1879: 1876: 1874: 1871: 1869: 1866: 1864: 1861: 1859: 1856: 1854: 1851: 1849: 1846: 1844: 1841: 1839: 1836: 1834: 1831: 1829: 1826: 1824: 1821: 1819: 1816: 1814: 1811: 1809: 1806: 1804: 1801: 1799: 1796: 1794: 1791: 1789: 1786: 1784: 1781: 1779: 1776: 1774: 1773:Ordo Virtutum 1771: 1769: 1768:Lingua ignota 1766: 1765: 1759: 1758: 1747: 1745: 1740: 1738: 1725: 1724: 1717: 1714: 1712: 1709: 1707: 1704: 1702: 1701:Thomas Merton 1699: 1697: 1694: 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