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Deification is the change of man into god through the elegance of God. Predominant in the theology of eastern Christianity, but marginalized and obscured in contemporary interpretations of the theology of american Christianity, deification, not only salvation, as Marcelle Bartolo-Abela explores, is what was and remains the purpose of God for mankind, with deification taking place not only in patria, but in via in patria. This is a knowledge of deification which includes been typically lost and needs to be recovered in the american Church.Examining the works of the Church Fathers on both attributes of the East-West divide in Christianity, Bartolo-Abela demonstrates somewhat than being limited to the East, deification was featured constantly in many theological works popular in the West, with visible being those of Aquinas, Augustine, Hilary of Poitiers, Irenaeus, and Jerome. Bartolo-Abela argues that it was deification, not only salvation as commonly realized, that was also inherently referred to by Paul VI in the universal call to holiness within Lumen Gentium, the Dogmatic Constitution on the Church.Deification is the procedure of man becoming god and attaining theoria, witnessing God, after purification of the center and brightness of the center of the spirit have ensued through baptism in the Holy Soul, as realized throughout traditions. Deification out of this life, not only another, is the desire of God for mankind in accord with the words of Christ and Peter, "I said you are gods" (Jn 10:34) and "partakers of the divine nature" (2 P 1:4).
