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Palgrave Macmillan is the global academic imprint of the above companies and has companies and representatives throughout the world. Another father important to the East is the 6th/7th century theologian Maximus the Confessor. One of his key ideas -and he is far from the only eastern father to hold such a view -was called "theosis" or "deification." The basic idea is that because God the Son took upon human nature fully (the hypostatic union: Jesus Christ is "fully God and fully man") the human and the divine are inextricably bound together, and the eschatological, soteriological destiny of humans is to be taken up into the divine nature. But theosis doesn't end there. It ends up expanding to encompass the redemption of all of nature. I want to bring these themes from Irenaeus and Maximus together and expand them. I will defend the thesis that a class of animals (to be discussed later) will not only be resurrected at the eschaton, but will be deified in much the same way that humans will be. That they will become, in the language of Narnia, "talking animals." Language is the characteristic mark of high intelligence. So I am suggesting that they will become full-fledged persons (rat

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Author

Trent Dougherty (auth.)

Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9780230354432

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Philosophy, Christian, Religion