How the strange yet familiar doctrine of theosis can invigorate the Christian life. Imagine Charles Wesley attending a Christmas morning service today and hearing that his great hymn, "Hark! The ...
Two millennia ago the risen Jesus Christ invaded the world of a Jewish rabbi named Paul, destroyed the cosmic order as he knew it, incorporated him into a “new creation” and conscripted him for a ...
Many of the great theologians in the Christian tradition, particularly in the East, have used the language of deification (theosis in Greek) to describe human spiritual progress toward God. Some ...