Day 2851 – Theology Thursday – Theosis and Its Counterfeit: How Hermeticism, Gnosticism, and Their Heirs Distorted Deification.
This episode discusses the Christian doctrine of theosis, or deification, as preserved in the Eastern Orthodox Church. It contrasts this teaching, which emphasizes humanity partaking in the divine nature through grace, with counterfeit forms of deification found in Hermeticism…