To: sionnsar
"Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and be not weary of doing them good to your life's end. The world may sneer at such conduct and call it mean and low-spirited. But this is the mind of Christ.
This is the way to be like God."
See, Anglicanism, at least at one time, really did get the point. :)
5 posted on
05/03/2006 5:26:37 PM PDT by
Kolokotronis
(Christ is Risen, and you, o death, are annihilated!)
To: Kolokotronis
"See, Anglicanism, at least at one time, really did get the point. :)"
LOL, that was the point I was trying to make.
7 posted on
05/04/2006 2:35:02 PM PDT by
sionnsar
(†trad-anglican.faithweb.com† | Iran Azadi 2006 | SONY: 5yst3m 0wn3d - it's N0t Y0urs)
To: Kolokotronis
Interesting. I googled "Anglican Theosis" and the very first link was to
"A. M. Allchin titles his book on theosis Participation in God: A Forgotten Strand in Anglican Tradition".
So I was right. It has been lost. Early in the linked page it says: "The idea of divinization, of redeemed human nature somehow participating in the very life of God, is found to a surprising extent throughout Christian history, although it is practically unknown to the majority of Christians (and even many theologians) in the West. In Orthodox theology, however, it is the controlling doctrine."
You had mentioned that the Mennonite/Amish might know this?
8 posted on
05/04/2006 2:39:42 PM PDT by
sionnsar
(†trad-anglican.faithweb.com† | Iran Azadi 2006 | SONY: 5yst3m 0wn3d - it's N0t Y0urs)
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