[kosta50]

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.

[kosta50]

apologies for double post

[Petrosius]

[D]oes the Catholic Church doctrine teach that humans become God by hypostatic union the way Word became flesh?

No. The hypostatic union is unique to the Son.

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.

Where does the West say that that we become God in essence?