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Maximus the Confessor on Theosis

Maximus the Confessor

Maximus the Confessor

theosis
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Let us become the image of the one whole God, bearing nothing earthly in ourselves, so that we may consort with God and become gods, receiving from God our existence as gods.

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Maximus Confessor: Selected Writings, Maximus the Confessor, Mahwah, NJ: Paulist Press, 1985

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