Tag Archives: theosis

To Infinity and Beyond: Desire and Deification in the One-Storey Universe

Posted on 19 May 2022 by Fr Aidan Kimel

In this final installment of my reflections upon You Are Gods, we come to the fourth, final, and most contentious highlight of the book: 4) Human beings are necessarily ordered to deification in Jesus Christ by virtue of their creation … Continue reading →

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Baptized into the Eschatological In-between

Posted on 8 November 2020 by Fr Aidan Kimel

For in Christ Jesus the whole fullness of deity dwells bodily, and you have been filled in him, who is the head of all rule and authority. In him also you were circumcised with a circumcision made without hands, by … Continue reading →

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Introducing St Theodore of Tarsus

Posted on 23 June 2020 by Fr Aidan Kimel

by Fr James Siemens, Ph.D. Work by unknowns is easy to ignore. Those whose contributions failed to find a recorder in their time, or a relay later, slip from memory and get dismissed as insignificant. This is especially the case … Continue reading →

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Slowly Reading St Athanasius: Something is rotten in the state of Denmark

Posted on 16 June 2020 by Fr Aidan Kimel

by John Stamps Something is rotten in the state of Denmark. Something is also rotten with the Human Race. Something worse than Hamlet’s creepy uncle and lutefisk.1 This corruption stinks to high heaven. Far worse than malodorous lutefisk is the … Continue reading →

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Slowly Reading St Athanasius: You and I are the Cause of the Incarnation of the Word

Posted on 27 May 2020 by Fr Aidan Kimel

by John Stamps Perhaps you are wondering for what reason, having proposed to talk about the Incarnation (JS: in-human-ification) of the Word, we are now expounding the origin of human beings. Yet this too is not distinct from the aim … Continue reading →

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Reviewing Reardon on Redemption

Posted on 22 May 2018 by Fr Aidan Kimel

by Tom Belt It’s always an honor to join in the conversation here at Fr Aidan’s place. It’s good of him to invite me in to share my thoughts on Fr Patrick Henry Reardon’s enlightening book Reclaiming the Atonement: An … Continue reading →

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Theosis and the Palamite Distinction: Questions & Concerns

Posted on 2 October 2017 by Fr Aidan Kimel

by Fr Aidan Kimel That there exists in God a real distinction between his essence and his energies, theologians assure us, is an irreformable dogma of the Orthodox Church. If so, it is a curious dogma, originating in a question … Continue reading →

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The Dispassionate Sybil and the Cosmic Dance

Posted on 21 June 2017 by Fr Aidan Kimel

Almost forty years ago I read my first novel by Charles Williams. I do not recall why I chose it. It was not the first or even the second novel that he wrote, nor is it one that most readers … Continue reading →

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