Partakers of the divine nature : the history and development of deification in the Christian traditions /
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Grand Rapids, Mich. :
Baker Academic,
2008.
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| Edition: | Paperback edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- The problem, promise, and process of theosis / Michael J. Christensen
- The place of theosis in Orthodox theology / Andrew Louth
- Deification of the philosopher in classical Greece / John R. Lenz
- Can we speak of theosis in Paul? / Stephen Finlan
- Does 2 Peter 1:4 speak of deification? / James Starr
- The strategic adaptation of deification in the Cappadocians / J.A. McGuckin
- Rhetorical application of theosis in Greek patristic theology / Vladimir Kharlamov
- Divinization as perichoretic embrace in Maximus the Confessor / Elena Vishnevskaya
- Paradise as the landscape of salvation in Ephrem the Syrian / Thomas Buchan
- The Copto-Arabic tradition of theosis : a eucharistic reading of John 3:51-57 in Būluṣ al-Būshī's treatise On the incarnation / Stephen J. Davis
- St. Anselm : theoria and the doctrinal logic of perfection / Nathan R. Kerr
- Martin Luther : "Little Christs for the world" ; faith and sacraments as means to theosis / Jonathan Linman
- John Calvin : united to God through Christ / J. Todd Billings
- John Wesley : Christian perfection as faith filled with the energy of love / Michael J. Christensen
- Neo-Palamism, divinizing grace, and the breach between East and West / Jeffrey D. Finch
- Sergius Bulgakov : Russian theosis / Boris Jakim
- Karl Rahner : divinization in Roman Catholicism / Francis J. Caponi
- Theosis in recent research : a renewal of interest and a need for clarity / Gösta Hallonsten
- Resources on theosis with select primary sources in translation / Jeffery A. Wittung.