Cooper, Jordan (Jordan Brian), author.
Eugene, Oregon : Wipf & Stock, [2014]
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Notes:

• Includes bibliographical references.
• Defining theosis — Theosis in the Lutheran tradition — Theosis in Holy Scripture — Theosis as Christification in ealry Patristic sources — The Neoplatonic approach to deification.
• Examines the teachings of the Church Fathers, the New Testament, and the Lutheran Confessional tradition in conversation with recent scholarship on theosis. [The author] proposes that the participationist soteriology of the early fathers expressed in terms of theosis is compatible with Luther’s doctrine of forensic justification.–Provided by publisher

Subjects:

• Deification (Christianity) — History of doctrines.
• Lutheran Church — Doctrines.

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