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مراجع أجنبية حول التأله 1- Theosis - Achieving Your Potential In Christ "... Theosis is what God wants for us who are created in His own image: to become like Him in whose image we are made. 2- Maximos Confessor on the Infinity of Man “Indeed, since man's purpose was theosis, which he was not able to achieve by his own means, the descent of God to man would be necessary under any circumstance, in order to facilitate man's ascent. Incarnation is the perfection of man. Man’s sin and fall were a fact which did not cause a new decision by God, but added a detail to the eternal design. This is a further elaboration of Athanasius' teaching on the subject as in the De Incarnatione Verbi.” 3- Theosis - OrthodoxWiki encyclopedia “Theosis, meaning deification or divinization, is the process of man becoming holy and being united with God, beginning in this life and later consummated in the resurrection. Theosis is the content of salvation from sin, is premised upon apostolic and early Christian understanding of the life of faith, and is conceptually foundational in both the east and the west.”
4- Affirmation & Critique Press "... A salvation that is simply judicial and makes of human beings nothing more than forensic objects, or one that amounts to no more that an improvement of our ethics or morality and makes of us nothing more than “better” men and women, offers little benefit to us as creatures and to God as Creator ..." 5- Becoming Like God: An evangelical doctrine of theosis "In one of his letters, Athanasius, the fourth-century defender of the faith, made his famous statement that the Son of God became man "that he might deify us in himself." In his great work, On the Incarnation, he wrote similarly that Christ "was made man that we might be made God." This is the doctrine of theosis, also known as deification, divinization, or, as some prefer, participation in God.
While the concept of theosis has roots in the ante-Nicene period, it is not an antiquated historical curiosity. The idea of divinization, of redeemed human nature somehow participating in the very life of God, is found to a surprising extent throughout Christian history, although it is practically unknown to the majority of Christians (and even many theologians) in the West. In Orthodox theology, however, it is the controlling doctrine. Furthermore, "it is not too much to say that the divinization of humanity is the central theme, chief aim, basic purpose, or primary religious ideal of Orthodoxy." With the growing interest in Eastern Orthodox/Evangelical rapprochement, it is essential that theosis studies be pursued. Evangelicals may receive considerable benefit from a clear understanding and judicious appropriation of the doctrine. This is so particularly in light of the crying need for a robust, biblical theology of the Christian life that will refute and replace the plethora of false spiritualities plaguing Church and society." |
