Query: theosis

title: Baptizing Theosis: Sketching an Evangelical Account
abstract: This essay explores some of the dogmatic challenges involved in developing a distinctively evangelical account of the doctrine of theosis, that is, humanity's participation in the life of God. After offering some preliminary clarifications regarding the terminology of theosis, the paper sketches in broad strokes how an account of theosis might take shape within the structures of evangelical theology. David Bebbington's famous evangelical quadrilateral biblicism, crucicentrism, conversionism, and activism serves as the basic framework (Bebbington 1989: 1 19) It will be argued that evangelical theology can accommodate a version of theosis within this structure, but that evangelicals' understanding of these categories may require some 'flexing' in order to make room for a more Christocentric and participatory conceptualization of redemption, one that culminates in the beatific vision of the redeemed when 'God will be all in all' (1 Cor 15:28) The final section of the paper points to a pair of important figures who may serve as resources for an evangelical retrieval of theosis.

title: Confessing our Secrets: Liturgical Theosis in the Thought of C.S. Lewis
abstract: While others have persuasively argued for the centrality of theosis to C. S. Lewis' theology, little attention has been paid to the sources through which Lewis came to his peculiar understanding of.

title: Theosis in Early Twentieth Century Russian Religious Thought
abstract: The chapter argues that the Greek patristic doctrine of theosis 'becoming god' or 'making god' was a dominant theme of late imperial Russian religious thought, in which it served as a response to the acutely felt anticipation of the imminent collapse of the Russian political and social order. Theosis is defined as a metaphor for salvation that emphasizes the process, as much as the goal, of assimilation to God, and which can be viewed as a narrative encompassing the entire economy of salvation as well as a doctrine narrowly conceived. It is argued that lay Russian religious thinkers accessed the concept of theosis through diverse channels that included the patristic translation project and related scholarship of Russia's Theological Academies, the still vital tradition of spiritual eldership and the pathway to personal transfiguration by the divine energies set out in the Dobrotoliubie, and the philosophy of divine humanity of the nineteenth century religious philosopher Vladimir Solov'ev. Three seminal early twentieth century treatments of theosis are analysed: Sergei Bulgakov's Philosophy of Economy (1912) Nikolai Berdyaev's Meaning of Creativity (1916) and Pavel Florensky's The Pillar and Ground of the Truth (1914) These reveal the 'modernist' approach typical of the period, that is, engagement of theosis in dialogue with diverse intellectual contexts including German metaphysical idealism (Bulgakov) Symbolism and the theosophy of Jakob Bohme (Berdyaev) on the one hand, and, in the case of Florensky, engagement of the formal experimentalism of modernism in the service of a defence of Orthodox mystical asceticism.

title: The Doctrine of Theosis and the Reality of Purpose: Exploring the Convergence between Deification and Organismic Teleology

title: The Theosis of the Body of Christ

title: The Eternal Purpose of God: An Ecclesiology of Theosis

title: Concorporeal Theosis: Toward an Apostolic and Pentecostal Ecclesiology

title: The theosis of the body of Christ: from the early British Apostolics to a Pentecostal Trinitarian ecclesiology
abstract: missionary help. Partially or fully, various indigenous theologians and church leaders called for the western 'missionary moratorium' (144) For Pachuau, this was a wakeup call for the world missionary enterprise to re vision the theology of mission as missio Dei, where missionaries can be sent from 'everywhere to everywhere' (182) Collectively World Christianity adds much value to the broad historical and theological matters of mission within the context of World Christianity. It is undoubtedly a must read resource for anyone interested in understanding the present nature of Christianity. It is also important to note that, for newcomers to the field, the title World Christianity may give a false expectation of providing an introduction to the nature of the entire worldwide Christianity today. However, Pachuau has not done so in this volume, as he uses the phrase World Christianity to mean the movement of Christianity from the Global North to the Global South, leaving the western versions of Christianity out of the discussion. Nonetheless, this limitation should not be a barrier for any avid readers of World Christianity. For scholars and students of mission and World Christianity, Pachuau's insights are worth considering, especially through the lens of the global rise of Pentecostalism. Although Pachuau does not portray Majority World Christianity from an overtly Pentecostal perspective, his well thought out placement of the Pentecostal movement in every Majority World continent is noteworthy. In a way, the book subtly acts as a preamble for the expansive worldwide story of the Pentecostal movement. Therefore, the book could also be an apt precursory resource for understanding the world stage set for the emergence of Pentecostalism.

title: Theosis (Deification) as a New Testament and Evangelical Doctrine
abstract: This is the second one of the two articles by this author, which examine the doctrine of theosis, sometimes also called deification or divinization. The first article presented theosis as a biblical and historical doctrine. This article presents theosis as a New Testament and evangelical doctrine. The first part of this article deals with theosis in New Testament theology. The second part of this article gives a proposal for articulating an evangelical doctrine of theosis. Because of its New Testament support, theosis should occupy a much more prominent place in evangelical theology.

title: Partisipasi, Komunitarian, dan Eskatologi
abstract: This article proposes an imaginative constructive theology the membali puang in Rambu Solo' [Toraja funeral rites] The soteriological notion of the Aluk Todolo [Way of the Ancestors] assumes that humans at first were divine beings and would eventually return [membali] to being divine, puang. I will situate membali puang in dialogue with the notion of theosis from the tradition of Eastern Orthodoxy, as exemplified in the work of Vladimir Lossky. He argues that participation in Trinitarian life occurs only in the divine energy. Therefore, in an imaginative way, I propose that membali puang as theosis enjoys a similar character of being participatory, communitarian, and eschatological.