Deification in the Latin Patristic Tradition
Author: Jared Ortiz
Publisher: Studies in Early Christianity
Published: 2019
Total Pages: 329
ISBN-13: 0813231426
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"Contributors to this volume refute the widely held perception that the doctrine of deification primarily belonged in the Eastern Church, and that the Western Church reduced the rich biblical and Greek patristic understanding of salvation to a narrow view of redemption. To the contrary, these essays provide evidence of the wide-ranging use of deification themes in major Latin patristic sources, showing that deification was a native part of early Latin theology that was consitently and creatively employed"--