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Though the Nicene Creed is regularly recited in weekly church
services, few understand its historical origins and connections to
Scripture and key Christian doctrines. This volume bridges the gap,
providing an accessible introduction that explains how the Creed is
anchored in the Bible and how it came to be written and confessed
in the early history of the church. The authors show how the Creed
reflects the purpose of God in salvation, especially in relation to
Christians' divine adoption as sons and daughters, leading to
glorification. Each chapter includes sidebars highlighting how the
Creed has been received in the church's liturgy. Professors,
students, clergy, and religious educators will benefit from this
illuminating and edifying guide to the Nicene Creed.
This excellent set of essays firmly establishes the varied place
and role that deification played in the Latin tradition. It will
provide what will hopefully be the beginning of renewed interest in
and scholarship of western ideas of deification. It will also end
what has sometimes been cast as a distinctive and disjunctive
relationship between eastern and western theologies. Each essay is
well crafted, diligent, and meticulous in scholarship and an
exercise in crisp and perspicacious expression. Ortiz is to be
commended for bringing the collection together."" - Reviews in
Religion and Theology
Christ came to save us from sin and death. But what did he save us
for? One beautiful and compelling answer to this question is that
God saved us for union with him so that we might become "partakers
of the divine nature" (1 Pet 2:4), what the Christian tradition has
called "deification." This term refers to a particular vision of
salvation which claims that God wants to share his own divine life
with us, uniting us to himself and transforming us into his
likeness. While often thought to be either a heretical notion or
the provenance of Eastern Orthodoxy, this book shows that
deification is an integral part of Catholicism, Orthodoxy, and many
Protestant denominations. Drawing on the resources of their own
Christian heritages, eleven scholars share the riches of their
respective traditions on the doctrine of deification. In this book
, scholars and pastor-scholars from diverse Christian expressions
write for both a scholarly and lay audience about what God created
us to be: adopted children of God who are called, even now, to "be
filled with all the fullness of God" (Eph. 3:19).
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