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Michael Roden

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Michael Roden is an independent researcher of Christian theology and history. His latest book, Being Gods: Christian Deification as Restoration of the Divine Nature examines the enormous role of deification in Christian theology. He argues that this overarching meaning of Christianity has been lost over the past few centuries, and this loss has steered Christianity away from its original mission as a means of deifying by eliciting the original divine nature. He supports his contention with scripture and elucidates it with extracanonical and patristic sources (especially Origen, Augustine, Hilary, Maximus, and Aquinas). Along the way, he redefines the idea of original sin, stresses the morality at the heart of Jesus’ teaching, upholds th ...more

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	The Enlightened Christian: A Psychological Interpretation of the Bible really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2015 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Jesus and Ourselves: An Alternative Understanding of Christianity 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1996	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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The Lost Doctrine: Deification in Christian Teaching

The ancient Christian doctrine of deification has been a major topic of research for the past hundred years or so, and the subject is rapidly increasing in popularity, with many books and articles rediscovering its prevalence in ancient Christian theology, medieval theology, and even Western Reformed theology. Every major Christian theologian wrote about how the intended purpose of God to make us Read more of this blog post »

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