Theosis

Stephen Finlan is a research assistant on the Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture at Drew University and Adjunct Professor at Seton Hall University. He is the author of The Background and Content of Paul's Cultic Atonement Metaphors and Problems with Atonement: The Origins of, and Controversy About, The Atonement Doctrine.Vlandimir Kharlamov teaches at Fairleigh Dickinson University and works as a research assistant on the Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture at Drew.

"... These twin volumes are a scintillating gift to Christianity's ongoing revelation in the third millennium. Taste and see that the Lord is good!"Alastair McIntosh, The Expository Times, Volume 126 No 2, November 2014"A big achievement of this miscellany is that it offers a good overview of different aspects of the Theosis-Concept in compact manner."-Christoph Muehl, Theologische Revue, 109. Jahrgang No 4, 2013

• Introduction; Stephen Finlan and Vladimir Kharlamov; Defining the Term; Terminology of Theosis; History of Scholarship; A Renewed Discussion; Theosis, Judaism, and Old Testament Anthropology; Gregory Glazov; Theosis and Old Testament Biblical Theology; Theosis and Old Testament Covenantal Anthropology; Theo4sis and Old Testament Sapiential Anthropology; Second Peter's Notion of Divine Participation; Stephen Finlan; Middle-Platonic Background; Stoic Growth in Virtue; Apocalyptic Judaism; Pauline Parallels; Petrine Disputes; Knowledge of Christ; Emergence of the Deification Theme in the Apostolic Fathers; Vladimir Kharlamov; Didache; The Epistle of Barnabas; Clement of Rome (First Clement); Second Clement; Ignatius of Antioch; Polycarp of Smyrna; Conclusion; Deification in the Apologists of the Second Century; Vladimir Kharlamov; Justin Martyr; Tatian; Theophilus of Antioch; Athenagoras; Epistle to Diognetus; Conclusion; Irenaeus on the Christological Basis of Human Divinization; Jeffrey Finch; Theological Anthropology: Image and Likeness Recapitulated; God Partakable; Christ the Head; Athanasius on the Deifying Work of the Redeemer; Jeffrey Finch Introduction; The One and the Many; Human Cooperation and Appropriation; By the Incarnation Alone?; Augustine's Conception of Deification, Revisited; Robert Puchniak; The Principal Passages; Augustinian Polemic; Infrequency of Deification Imagery; Divinization and Spiritual Progress in Maximus the Confessor; Elena Vishnevskaya; The Fundamentals of Divinization; Ascetic Practice and Contemplation; Purification in Love; Reforming Theosis; Myk Habets; Worlds Apart; Theosis and the West; T. F. Torrance: A Case Study; Imago Dei; Creator-Creature Distinction; Reconciling Exchange; Conclusion; The Comedy of Divinization in Soloviev; Stephen Finlan; Divinization and Comedy; Trinitarianism; Sophiology; Following the Christ Pattern; Anti-Gnostic Triumph; List of Contributors.