3. 藉著 從高處降下的愛,我們的主耶祂
穌基督成為我們的所是,為了 要將祂
我們作成 的所是。祂
Through his transcendent love, our
Lord Jesus Christ became what we
are, that he might make us to be
what he is.
Irenaeus (- ca.202)
7. • Augustinus (354-430) 比希臘神學
家更常用「交換地位」的說法:道
成了我們的所是,使我們能達到我
們所不是的。
Geoffrey W. H. Lampe (1912–1980)
Theology in the Patristic Period in A History of Christian Doctrine
Hubert Cunliffe-Jones
A History of Christian Doctrine, Philadelphia,Fortress,1978
8. • Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274) 在
他 Summa Theologica 中的每一部
分的主題就是神化論。
• 神與人的聯合,乃是人性被合併到
神裡面,而非神被合併到人裡。
Anna Williams
The Ground of Union: Deification in Aquinas and Palamas
Oxford University Press, 1999
12. • Calvin 對神化的過程分成信徒與基督聯
合的兩個部分,首先是基督的道成肉身
,這表明借著神性的成為人,人性要被
神化 a divinising of humanity through
the humanising of divinity 。
• 第二步是借著聖靈的工作,就是借著聖
靈與信徒活在聖靈的能力中經歷有分於
神聖的性情,簡單地說,就是信徒有分
于基督的性情。
Myk Habets, Theosis in the Theology of Thomas Torrance
Ashgate,2009,PP.11-12
15. • Richard Hooker, John H. Newman,
Edward Pusey 和 C. S. Lewis 等人
,都一再地題及「神化」這教義。
• Anglican Church 於 1833 -1845
年 曾 發 起 了 一 個 Oxford
Movement ,重新溫習教父們所關
心的項目,而神化就是其中的一項
。
Arthur M. Allchin
Participation in God:
A Forgotten Strand in Anglican Tradition
16. Wesley 似乎使用了他對神化的認識,作為
他組織得救之順序( ordo salutis )的原則
,正如 Wesley 照著神化的調子寫出他得
救
的順序,可能更適當說,……我們藉著愛的
能力(與我們的自由協調),正在成為「像
」神,正如 在俯就的愛裡成為我們的所是祂
。
Steve K. McCormick,
Theosis in Chrysostom and Wesley: An Eastern Paradigm on Faith and Love
www.sesley.nu.edu/theojrnl/26-30/26-3.htm (2002)
17. Eastern church leaders insisted that in deification
we are made like God yet remain distinct from him.
The way they put it is that we experience his
"energies" but do not share his "essence." This
distinction is crucial, because it clarifies that
for the Orthodox, becoming like God is not the same
as becoming identical with God. We can never become
the same as our Creator (the Uncreated), though we
can take on crucial aspects of his character and
being.
James R. Payton Jr.
Theosis, Keeping the End in View
www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2008/october/36.66.html
21. 神化論的參考書籍
• Jules Gross
• The Divinization of the Christian according to the Greek Fathers
• 根據希臘教父們之基督徒的成神論
• Translated by Paul A. Onica
• Anaheim, CA: A&C Press, 2002
• Norman Russell
• The Doctrine of Deification in the Greek Patristic Tradition
• 在希臘教父傳統中的神化教義
• Oxford University Press, 2004
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