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Mar 28, 2023 · According to the Orthodox Church, deification is our becoming more like God through His grace or divine energies. In creation, humans were made in the image and likeness of God ( Gen. 1:26) according to human nature. In other words, all of humanity by nature is an icon or image of God. From the beginning, we were meant to share in the Life of ...
Aug 12, 2015 · The following are some fundamental teachings which are essential to the Orthodox Christian. Belief in the True God. The Scriptures refer often to the nature and substance of God in which the Church should believe. It is characteristic that St. John recorded, "This is life eternal, that they might know thee, the only true God" (17:3).
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Nov 2, 2012 · As Orthodox Christians we do not believe in predestination. Jesus said: “Whoever wants to come after me, let him take up his cross and follow me” (Mark 8:34). The gift and the challenge to follow Jesus through a life of faith and works coincide. The reception of the gift of salvation is not a one-time event but a life-time process. St.
Probably the central idea of Eastern Orthodox theology is the concept of theosis, and Orthodox writers use this Greek word to refer both to humanity’s initial vocation (the task which God gave to Adam and Eve at creation) and to salvation. The word theosis is translated ‘deification’ in English and is thus very problematic for most ...
Eastern Orthodox theology is the theology particular to the Eastern Orthodox Church.It is characterized by monotheistic Trinitarianism, belief in the Incarnation of the divine Logos or only-begotten Son of God, cataphatic theology with apophatic theology, a hermeneutic defined by a Sacred Tradition, a catholic ecclesiology, a theology of the person, and a principally recapitulative and ...
Orthodoxy does not mean by this that we somehow become equal with God or a part of God. It means, as 14th century Orthodox theologian Gregory Palamas explained, that we participate in the "energies" of God, though not in His "essence." There is, in fact, Biblical warrant for the language Orthodoxy uses. 2 Peter 1:4 says: " (H) e has given us ...
The Eastern Orthodox tradition speaks of salvation as deification, or theosis. Salvation begins with the incarnation, in which God became human. God incarnated as Jesus was both true God and true man.
