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THEOLOGY OF PAUL M.M.NINAN ___________________________________________________________ [God] gave himself to us through his Spirit. By the participation of the Spirit, we become communicants in the divine [460] nature [...] For this reason, THOSE IN WHOM THE SPIRIT DWELLS ARE DIVINIZED. (St. Athanasius, Ep. Serap. 1, 24: PG 26.585 & 588) St. Thomas Aquinas 1225–1274. Italian Dominican friar, theologian, and philosopher. The most influential thinker of the medieval period, “The only-begotten Son of God, wanting to make us sharers in his divinity, assumed our nature, so that he, made man, might MAKE MEN GODS.” (St. Thomas Aquinas, Opusc. 57: 1-4). <strong>Paul</strong>os Mar Gregorios "The main tenet of the Orthodox faith is the belief that salvation is by being united with Christ who is Isvara incarnate. By being united with Him, we are to grow into God's image by becoming more and more god-like in character, in love, in goodness and in wisdom. This process of transformation is called theosis or divinization." When we unite ourselves unto Christ we become "transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord" (II Corinthians 3:18). "And as we have borne the image of the man of dust, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly Man" (I Corinthians 15:49). 158
THEOLOGY OF PAUL M.M.NINAN ___________________________________________________________ Christ as "the image of the invisible God, the first-born of all creation" (Col 1:15), "every man" to become "mature in Christ" (Col 1:28), "have come to fullness of life in Him" (Col. 2:10). "to mature manhood, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ" (Eph 4:13), to acquire "the mind of Christ" (1 Cor. 2:16), the heart of Christ (cf. Eph 3:17) After Darwin, people came to realize that God has not finished the creation of the world. He is still creating. Tilhard DeChardin, the great anthropologist, believed that the destiny of man is to rise toward spiritual perfection until at last he is united with God. 159
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