With all due respect, P, I think you’ve made the geronda’s point.
Ditto. Petrosius wrote "Archimandrite George clearly is not familiar with Western thought on this subject or is misrepresenting it."
Petrosius' examples show that Achimadrite George not only knows the mindset of the West but portrayed it accurately. The West teaches that men become God the way God became man.
Petrosis: does the Catholic Church doctrine teach that humans become God by hypostatic union the way Word became flesh?
If not, what does "partakers of divine nature" mean in the West? Again, from the exmaples you give ity is either a gross misinterpretation of 2 Pet 1:4, which merely states that we become sharers of divine character of God, but do not become God in essence, or it is a just a poor choice of words.
Ditto. Petrosius wrote "Archimandrite George clearly is not familiar with Western thought on this subject or is misrepresenting it."
Petrosius' examples show that Achimadrite George not only knows the mindset of the West but portrayed it accurately. The West teaches that men become God the way God became man.
Petrosis: does the Catholic Church doctrine teach that humans become God by hypostatic union the way Word became flesh?
If not, what does "partakers of divine nature" mean in the West? Again, from the exmaples you give ity is either a gross misinterpretation of 2 Pet 1:4, which merely states that we become sharers of divine character of God, but do not become God in essence, or it is a just a poor choice of words.
From my reading, the Archimandrite George’s point was that the Western Church does not hold to the idea of Theosis/Sanctification, i.e, the”participation in God’s glory, a vision of God, of His Grace and His uncreated light”. This is clearly wrong.