THE DEIFICATION OF MAN IN THE CONTEXT OF TRIADOLOGICAL DOGMA
/ZBOŽŠTENIE ČLOVEKA V KONTEXTE TRIADOLOGICKEJ DOGMY/

Miroslav ZUPINA

lecturer, Orthodox Theological Faculty, University of Presov in Presov, Masarykova 15, 080 01 Presov, Slovakia, miroslav.zupina@unipo.sk, 00421517724729

Abstract

The Orthodox triadology has a very distinct soteriological perspective and is directly related to the issue of the goal of human life. The Triune God as the Community of Divine Persons has revealed all the truths and facts necessary for the salvation of man and deified with His sanctifying presence the human nature. The main objective of revelation and manifestation of the Triune God in the world is the unification of man with God – the deification. Such deificated man never finds himself in a particular static and blissful state, but he is much more dynamically directed to his perfection and unification with God, which will be realised in the future age. The deification is not only a source and beginning of the deification of man in the present time, but it also symbolizes the fulfilment of soteriological and eschatological promises at the "end" of history.

Keywords

God, Holy Trinity, person, man, dogma, triadology, anthropology, deification, union

(Language: slovak)

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