AN INVESTIGATION OF THE USE OF THE METAPHOR OF DEIFICATION IN THE ANGLICAN TRADITION
AN INVESTIGATION OF THE USE OF THE METAPHOR OF DEIFICATION IN THE ANGLICAN TRADITION

Summary/Abstract: An investigation of the use of the metaphor of deification in the Anglican Tradition. While in the East the doctrine of theōsis was given official status in the fourteenth century, there is no parallel in the West. It is not so much that deification as a metaphor and concept has been deliberately rejected, for many theologians it seems that it was simply not ‘recognisable’, it was not a possibility because of the ways in which the divine and the human, the created and uncreated, sin and grace were construed. Yet within western traditions there are constant traces of the metaphor of deification, both within the mainstream as well as in what are perceived to be the peripheral traditions. The work of the Anglican divines through the centuries provides a rich theological resource for the reception of the metaphor of deification in the present day.

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