Nikolaos Asproulis, Michael Christensen, Brenda Colijn, Stephen Finlan, Myk Habets, Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen, Carl Mosser,
Christ came to save us from sin and death. But what did he save us for? One beautiful and compelling answer to this question is that God saved us for union with him so that we might become “partakers of the divine nature” (1 Pet 2:4), what the Christian tradition has called “deification.” This term refers to a particular vision of salvation which claims that God wants to share his own divine life with us, uniting us to himself and transforming us into his likeness. While often thought to be either a heretical notion or the provenance of Eastern Orthodoxy, this book shows that...
Christ came to save us from sin and death. But what did he save us for? One beautiful and compelling answer to this question is that God saved us for ...