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Deification in Christ: Orthodox Perspectives on the Nature of the Human Person is unavailable, but you can change that!

In this extraordinary study, Panayiotis Nellas examines certain central themes of patristic anthropology synthetically, throughout the whole range of patristic literature. He then treats the same themes in an individual father’s work and in a service from the Orthodox liturgy. He cites a number of patristic passages at length and provides references and notes which incorporate the findings of...

serious philosophies and theologies, that is, the relationship between God and man, Creator and creature.35 It is well known that various theories were formulated for the solution of this problem: the theory of ideas (Plato), of the Logos (Philo), of emanations (Gnostics), of autonomy (atheists), and so on. From the Orthodox point of view St John of Damascus summarizes the whole of the patristic tradition which preceded him when he teaches that “all things are distant from God not by place but by
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