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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...

the fall and do not form one of his natural constituent elements.65 That which empirical observation calls “human nature” is in biblical and patristic teaching a later nature, a state which came about after the fall, and not the original, and therefore true, human nature. “For the life which has been made similar to the divine nature is that which is proper to men and in accordance with nature.”66 Consequently, if modern man wishes to understand fully the nature of his existence, the good elements
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