Sentences with word «theosis»

The Christian life elevates humanity in the great sanctifying process of theosis.

Dionysius the Areopogite defines theosis as «the attaining of likeness to God and union with him in so far as it is possible» [1].

In Orthodox tradition, this movement toward union with God is called theosis.

(As a Newsday editor told me regarding a paragraph I'd written on theosis: «It just sounds so theoretical!»)

At first blush this can sound like Christian theosis, which is the idea that by the Holy Spirit believers «participate in the divine nature» (2 Pet 1:4) and thus grow into the divine likeness.

Is Mormon theosis or deification, then, really an expression of straightforward orthodoxy?

Then he suggests that we focus on the second half of the couplet about theosis, which is «potentially more orthodox.»

With Theosis death is transcended.

For theosis?

This represents the actual stage of divinization, a form of knowledge «beyond knowledge»: «Theologia recalls the knowledge - process and its content; theosis [divinisation] stresses the formal effect of this knowledge - process: likeness with God, unity with God».

Cairns mentions theosis as the key term of Orthodox theology that has most challenged his Protestant mind - set.

The gift of Omega immortality is the perfecting of the divine image and likeness in man, known as theosis in the Christian East.

Neuhaus (While We're At It, June / July 2008) takes note that the long - held Orthodox doctrine of theosis, or deification» paraphrasing Irenaeus, «God became man so that man... might become God»» is «getting serious attention from evangelical Protestant theologians» as evidenced by the new book Partakers of the Divine Nature: The History and Development of Deification in the Christian Traditions.

This is called theosis.

This is why, as long as the LDS holds onto this ontology, LDS deification will never come close to the orthodox Christian understanding of theosis.

He argues that Millet's approaches to theosis are «expressions of a straightforward theological orthodoxy.»

Theosis is the Pearl of Great Price alluded to by Christ.

Mormons plead guilty to all the strange things that were done by Christians in New Testament times that were lost during the great falling away in the aptly named Dark Ages, among them temple worship, theosis, vicarious baptism for the dead, definition of God, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit as separate but united in purpose, salvation requiring both grace and obedience to commandments, prophets and apostles, unpaid clergy, and continual revelation to guide His Church.

Here is a link to a book review and an excerpt from the review that addresses theosis and the Latin / Western Churches» loss of the teaching on theosis:

We call this growth process «theosis.»

The sources of the trinitarian doctrine is quite clear from history, and with it came beliefs in various things like transubstantiation, theosis, that Mary was a perpetual virgin free from sin, infant baptism, ecclesiastical hierarchy, bishop succession, the phoenix, that the world is made up of fire, water, earth and air, and that things formed of one element are immortal while things formed of many elements are mortal.

You say you like Eastern theology; well, Eastern theologies of «theosis» reflect this sort of idea.

Jenkins, on the other hand, describes appreciatively theological schools, from the Orthodox doctrine of theosis to Teilhard de Chardin to the modern «creation spirituality» movement, which one way or another allow humans to share with God in the evolution of the world to a glorious transformation ¯ although, as Jenkins points out, there's a danger that that could veer off into anthropocentric management.

No matter what you call it, theosis, sanctification, divinization — the full recovery of the image of God in which we were created is our destination.

Since the process of theosis is very challenging, requiring a great deal of resistance to pride and constant prayer, some Orthodox would worry that those who are not even trying to follow the ancient path, don't even know about it, may not reach salvation.

[12] In the words of Maximus scholar Panayotis Christou: «Indeed, since man's purpose was theosis, which he was not ableto achieve by his own means, the descent of God to man would be necessary under any circumstance, in order to facilitate man's ascent.

(Athanasius, On the Incarnation, 54) One image of this theosis is seen in the coming together of male and female in holy matrimony.

An even better image of this theosis comes when either a man or woman gives themselves to the entire community of the faithful as a groom or a bride.

For example, the Church of Jesus Christ (LDS) views on Baptism, Lay Ministry, the Trinity, Theosis, Grace vs. Works, the Divinity of Jesus Christ are closer to Early Christianity than any other denomination.

The central Orthodox doctrine is called theosis or theopoesis — the divinizing or deifying of humanity.