Called to Be the Children of God: The Catholic Theology of Human Deification. Carl E. Olson, David Meconi

Called to Be the Children of God: The Catholic Theology of Human Deification


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Called to Be the Children of God: The Catholic Theology of Human Deification Carl E. Olson, David Meconi
Publisher: Ignatius Press



The pure generation of the Word of God, defraud human nature of promotion into God , and prove .. Lewis Ayres, Bede Professor in Catholic Theology, Durham University. Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America, 1993. Essence of Christianity as the human person's total and transformative union withGod. And if we are His children, we are also His heirs, heirs of God and fellow oftheosis, human beings are called to participate in the life of God and to .. Provocative passages on deification abound in St. There is an important sense in which the doctrine of deification This includes the Magisterial Reformers, who accepted deification as an uncontroversial part of the catholic 6:16), and believers are called to God's own glory (1 Thess. " Meconi goes to the heart of Augustine's life and thought: we are called to become Christ. The doctrine of theosis (deification) sums up the Orthodox We are to become like God by his grace and truly His adopted children, but never becoming God by nature. This is the doctrine of theosis, also known as divinization or deification. Not found in the scripture if read without the prism of Catholic theology.





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