The Doctrine of Deification in the Greek Patristic Tradition by Norman Russell

By Norman Russell

Deification within the Greek patristic culture used to be the achievement of the future for which humanity was once created - no longer purely salvation from sin yet access into the fullness of the divine lifetime of the Trinity. This booklet, the 1st at the topic for over sixty years, strains the historical past of deification from its delivery as a second-century metaphor with biblical roots to its adulthood as a doctrine vital to the non secular lifetime of the Byzantine Church. Drawing realization to the richness and variety of the patristic ways from Irenaeus to Maximus the Confessor, Norman Russell bargains an entire dialogue of the historical past and context of the doctrine, whilst highlighting its distinctively Christian personality.

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51). He gives the Stoic sage as an example of a man who ‘was in all respects considered a god because he never expressed a mere opinion’ (Adv. Math. 7. 423). Sextus’ Christian contemporary, Clement of Alexandria, also found Euhemerism helpful. Unlike the Apologists, he does not see why Euhemerus and other rationalists should be regarded as atheists, for even if they did not see the full truth at least they stripped away error, leaving the field clear for the one supreme God who is the Father of the Lord Jesus Christ.

Tacitus, Ann. 4. 37). The Greek emphasis, however, as in earlier times was on the living ruler. Other provinces that had also been Hellenistic kingdoms, such as Bithynia, also had assemblies and these too were authorized to worship Augustus in conjunction with Roma. Such an institution was too useful not to be transferred to the West. By the time of the Flavians every province with the exception of Egypt had its concilium. 6 6 Reliefs portrayed the reigning emperor as pharaoh engaged in traditional Egyptian rituals.

111). Many of the subjects of these portraits were contemporaries or near-contemporaries of Clement of Alexandria. Whether Greeks of pure descent or Hellenized native Egyptians, they bear witness to the widespread belief in Egypt amongst people of Greek culture and high social standing that after death, like the kings of the past, they would become one with Osiris. 5. The Mystery Cults Concern for the afterlife, so far as we can tell from funerary art, seems to have been particularly intense in Egypt.

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