" The difference between anglo-catholics and evangelicals is not over whether both conversion and sanctification take place, but the ground upon which one is saved. For evangelicals, salvation is grounded on justification and justification comes by faith alone. For anglo-catholics justification (being declared righteous by God) comes at the end of the process of sanctification, not logically prior (as it does for evangelicals) so that salvation is accomplished through the grace imparted to the believer who cooperates with that grace and bears the fruit of a changed life and good works."
Monergism vs. synergism. Interesting that anyone might think the two could exist in the same ecclesial community! The Reformers certainly didn't. Neither does Orthodoxy for that matter.
My understanding of the (Eastern) Orthodox position here is not that it's a matter of declaration; it's a matter of being, correct? I am a layman not well educated as to the particulars of "sanctification" -- does this approach theosis (as described it seems to)?