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"For the more I shall be purified and illumined, I the wretched one, the more also shall be seen the Spirit Who purifies me, it always seems to me a beginning of both cleansing and seeing."

So far (only seven hymns in), I'm finding this to be a mix of stirring devotional language (I've already jotted down a paraphrased excerpt from hymn #5 to use as a public prayer of confession) and uncomfortable theological speech. I already take issue with the eastern conceptualization of theosis, but his description of it as "becoming God" or being "God by adoption" just feels icky. lol

Through with volume one. I will now joyfully skip over the translator's 130 pages of endnotes, and move straight to volume two.

Looking to get some more medieval theology under my belt. I'm already enjoying this taste of (non-standard) Eastern piety, which is so alien to my experience.

A little behind, but we'll get there.

We've switched around the reading routine. Instead of bedtime reading, we're doing family read-alouds. But somebody hadn't caught up through Wingfeather book 2, so we switched to a different book.

"God looks on us and our works and sees both as better than we deserve."

"If, in order to sound pious and humble, we insist that our good works are actually nothing of the sort, we end up making too little of the Spirit's work in our lives and muting dozens of biblical texts."

"Why is it automatically prideful to recognize evidence of your spiritual new birth?"

I heard DeYoung present (really preach) the central idea of this book at a breakfast hosted by Crossway at an ETS conference in San Antonio. He made me cry, which was not nice of him.

"And what God spake on the entrance of sin, by the way of contempt and reproach, 'Behold, the man is become like one of us!' upbraiding him with what he had foolishly designed; on the accomplishment of the work of His grace, He says in love and infinite goodness, 'Man is become like one of us,' in the perfect restoration of our image in Him."