Making worshipers into gods : deification in the Latin liturgy / Jared Ortiz -- Dying to become gods : deification in the Passion of Perpetua and Felicity / Thomas Heffernan -- Sequestered in Christ : deification in Tertullian / Mark A. Frisius -- After the fashion of God : deification in Cyprian / Benjamin Safranski -- Loaning and borrowing : deification in novatian / James L. Papandrea -- Making man manifest : deification in Hilary of Poitiers / Janet Sidaway -- Beyond carnal cogitations : deification in Ambrose of Milan / Fr. Brian Dunkle, SJ -- Rebirth into a new man : deification in Jerome / Vít Hušek -- "We shall be that seventh day" : deification in Augustine / Ron Haflidson -- Between empire and ecclesia : deification in Peter Chrysologus / Fr. David Meconi, SJ -- The wonderful exchange : deification in Leo the Great / Daniel Keating -- Every happy man is a god : deification in Boethius / Michael Wiitala -- Beholding Christ in the other and in the self : deification in Benedict of Nursia and Gregory the Great / Fr. Luke Dysinger, OSB -- A common Christian tradition : deification in the Greek and Latin fathers / Norman Russell.
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"Contributors to this volume refute the widely held perception that the doctrine of deification primarily belonged in the Eastern Church, and that the Western Church reduced the rich biblical and Greek patristic understanding of salvation to a narrow view of redemption. To the contrary, these essays provide evidence of the wide-ranging use of deification themes in major Latin patristic sources, showing that deification was a native part of early Latin theology that was consitently and creatively employed"--
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Deification in the Latin patristic tradition.
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Christian literature, Early-- Latin authors-- History and criticism.