This volume illustrates the complexity and variety of early Christian thought on the subject of the image of God as a theological concept, and the difficulties

Scholars from around the world offer a comprehensive, ecumenical survey of the history and development of deification.

It has become a commonplace to say that the Latin Fathers did not really hold a doctrine of deification. Indeed, it is often asserted that Western theologians h

This book considers the place of deification in the writings of Julian of Norwich and Richard Rolle, two of the fourteenth-century English Mystics. It argues th

Modern theological engagements on deification have undergone two major paradigm shifts. First, the study of deification shifted from the periphery of theologica