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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...

matter of the image, but, without this first aspect being overlooked, our viewpoint is extended and understood primarily in terms of an evolution or raising up of the image to the Archetype. The evolution of the image thus surpasses the bounds of creation—bounds which those who see only the matter of the image find themselves obliged to set since they are ignorant of the image itself—and reaches infinity. Evolution in this way is understood in all its dimensions—not only in those which are determined
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