DEIFICATION. The Latin term deificatio does not appear until late in the Roman era, and then first in Christian literature, particularly in the controversies involving the Nestorians, who blamed the orthodox for "deifying" the body of...

In Orthodox and Eastern Catholic theology, theosis (Greek: Θεωσις, meaning divinization, or deification, or making divine) is the call to man to become holy and seek union with God, beginning in this life and later consummated in the...

Over the course of the past several years research by Finnish theologians on Martin Luther has come to the conclusion that Luther shared a significant reality with basic Orthodox theology. This reality emerged in theological discussions that the Finnish Lutheran theologians have had...

This essay uncovers certain salvation-history presuppositions of the Lutheran doctrine of justification and their implications for theological anthropology in dialogue with Orthodox understanding of the human vocation in the doctrine of theosis. The Lutheran doctrine of justification offers an Eastern answer to a Western...