One with God: Salvation As Deification and Justification (Unitas) - Softcover

Veli-Matti Karkkainen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0814629717 ISBN 13: 9780814629710

Publisher: Liturgical Press, 2004

Synopsis

In recent decades the doctrine of salvation has become a key issue in international ecumenical conversations between Lutherans and Roman Catholics and also between Lutherans and Eastern Orthodox. The 1998 Joint Declaration on Justification between the Vatican and the Lutheran World Federation is a historic milestone in those efforts. Advances in ecumenical conversations have challenged the traditional opinion according to which the Lutheran view of justification by faith has been thought to be opposed to both the Eastern Orthodox doctrine of theosis (deification) and the Roman Catholic view of justification, which also includes sanctification.

In One With God Kärkkäinen points out that amidst all the differences between the East and West with regard to theological orientations and the language and concepts for soteriology, there is a common motif to be found: union with God. Both the Eastern understanding of theosis and the Western idea of justification have union as the ultimate goal.

Chapters are Salvation as Union," *Justification in Recent New Testament Scholarship, - *Deification in the Eastern Orthodox Tradition, - *Justification and Deification in Martin Luther's Theology, - *Deification, Union, and Sanctification in Later Protestant Theologies, - *Salvation as Union: Towards an Ecumenical Convergence, - and *One with God: In Search of a Consensual View of Salvation. -

Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen, D.Theol. Habil., is professor of systematic theology at Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, California.

About this title

About the Author:

Veli-Matti Karkkainen, D.Theol. Habil., is associate professor of systematic theology at Fuller Seminary, Pasadena, California, and docent of ecumenics at the University of Helsinki, Finland. The author of several books, he has also published nearly 100 articles in international theological journals.

Review:

. . . it would certainly open the door to valuable ecumenical discussions among scholars in very diverse branches of Christianity.Catholic Library World

The great service of the slim volume by Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen. . .fills in some valuable pieces of the justification-as-deification puzzle by providing a very helpful chapter on the doctrine of deification in the Eastern Orthodox tradition.The Christian Century

About this edition

• Publisher: Liturgical Press
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0814629717
• ISBN 13: 9780814629710
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 160