in the world. It is difficult to believe that Luther would use such graphic metaphorical language if he were not trying to show that the vita spiritualis of Christians (which comes from Christ alone) is participation in a divine reality that changes them. As long as the term theosis or divinization is not taken to mean that the baptized believer is unencumbered by sin or that no forensic language whatsoever is appropriate, then Finnish scholarship has performed a service by calling attention again