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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...

Christ opened up the way to the realization of this goal. Indeed, the birth of the divine Logos and the dispensation of the incarnation are not exhausted by redemption, by deliverance from the consequences of Adam’s fault. The Lord redeemed man from slavery to sin, death and devil, but He also put into effect the work which had not been effected by Adam. He united him with God, granting him true “being” in God and raising him to a new creation.60 Christ accomplishes the salvation of man not only
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