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With All the Fullness of God
Deification in Christian Tradition
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2021
Summary
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).
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2021
ISBN-Print
978-1-9787-0726-9
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978-1-9787-0727-6
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
270
Product type
Edited Book
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Contents No access
Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 4
Chapter 1 The Whole Christ No access
Chapter 2 Eucharistic Personhood No access
Chapter 3 Justification as Union and Christ’s Presence No access
Chapter 4 The Gospel’s End and Our Highest Good No access
Chapter 5 God’s Transforming Grace No access
Chapter 6 From Offspring of God to Sons of God No access
Chapter 7 “As Far as Our Capacity Allows” No access
Chapter 8 The Royal Way of Love No access
Chapter 9 Theōsis That Means Something No access
Chapter 10 Living into the Fullness of God No access
Chapter 11 More Than You Could Ever Imagine No access
