Theosis
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THEOSIS: PARTAKERS OF DIVINITY WITH GOD<br />
PROF. M. M. NINAN<br />
His Eminence Metropolitan Geevarghese Mar Osthathiose<br />
(1918 – 2012)<br />
metropolitan of the Indian Orthodox Church Niranam diocese in 1975–2007.<br />
He was the member of Faith and Order Commission and World Mission and Evangelism<br />
and was the advisor to the WCC Assembly in Nairobi in 1975.<br />
“Salvation is more than liberation of humanity or humanization, but divinization of the<br />
humanity and the cosmos. Finite salvation of the created is not infinite liberation, that is the<br />
infinite divinization as humanity is not created for one another alone, but for the Creator as<br />
well.<br />
The aim of salvation is not restitution of the unfallen state and Adam and Eve, but elevation<br />
to the status and fulness of the Second Adam, which is called Christification or Trinitification.<br />
The first Adam fell when tempted, but the Second Adam did not fall. Therefore our aim is not<br />
just humanization, but theosis. It is for this theosis that the Incarnation took place as "good<br />
news of a great joy which will come to all the people" (Lk 2:10)…<br />
Ulltimately all the differences and separations between human beings will be dissolved in a<br />
mutual sharing of beingness (perichoresis) where 'thine and 'mine' are different in the case<br />
of property, purpose or will, but different only in different personal and group identities with<br />
full openness to penetrate each other…<br />
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