The Concept of Grace

The Modern Period

A Brief Glossary of Medieval Soteriological Terms

Catholic Responses to Early Protestant Doctrines of Justification

Is There a ‘Reformation’ Doctrine of Justification?

Many assume that the patristic notion of deification is absent from the mainstreams of post-patristic Western theology. Recent scholarship, however, identifies deification in Augustine, Aquinas, Luther, early Anglicanism, early Methodism and Jonathan Edwards – all fountainheads of Western theology. This article contends that deification is also present in Calvin's theology. It is not a prominent theme in its own right and some of the bolder patristic terminology is not employed. Nonetheless, the concept and imagery of deification regularly appear on stage while other doctrines are explicated. For Calvin, deification is the eschatological goal and blessing greater than which nothing can be imagined.

https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0036930602000133

The greatest possible blessing: Calvin and deification

The earliest patristic interpretations of psalm 82, Jewish antecedents, and the origin of christian deification

The Gospel of John and Christian Theology

L'A. s'interesse aux disciplines des mormons qui touchent aux etudes bibliques et a l'histoire de l'Eglise, themes principaux pour la comprehension des origines chretiennes et de la nature du christianisme primitif. Les mormons et les evangeliques sont en concurrence lorsqu'ils avancent etre l'Eglise que le Christ a fonde. Sur ce sujet l'A. expose les prises de position des evangeliques. Pour lui, ceux-ci ont besoin de se reveiller pour etre en mesure de repondre aux savants mormons contemporains. Avant tout, les evangeliques ont besoin de surmonter leurs prejuges inappropries sur les mormons.

Mormon scholarship, apologetics, and evangelical neglect : Losing the battle and not knowing it?

Abstract The beatific vision is widely perceived as a Roman Catholic doctrine. Many continue to view deification as a distinctively Eastern Orthodox doctrine incompatible with the Western theological tradition, especially its Protestant expressions. This essay will demonstrate that several Reformers of the first and second generation promoted a vision of redemption that culminates with deification and beatific vision. They affirmed these concepts without apology in confessional statements, dogmatic works, biblical commentaries, and polemical treatises. Attention will focus on figures in the Reformed tradition though one could produce similar surveys for the Lutheran and Anglican branches of the Reformation as well. John Calvin will receive extended treatment because some scholars dispute whether he affirmed deification. This essay presents important evidence thus far overlooked which should settle the question.

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Carl Mosser

Papers

The greatest possible blessing: Calvin and deification

The earliest patristic interpretations of psalm 82, Jewish antecedents, and the origin of christian deification

The Gospel of John and Christian Theology

Mormon scholarship, apologetics, and evangelical neglect : Losing the battle and not knowing it?

Recovering the Reformation’s Ecumenical Vision of Redemption as Deification and Beatific Vision