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31 Hughes, Philip E., The True Image (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1989), 282.
32 Clendenin, Eastern, 121.
33 Theodosius, The Feast.
34 Renewal Theology, 43 (cf.125).
35 Theosis “is the final goal at which every Christian must aim: to become god, to attain theosis, ‘deification’ or ‘divination.’ For Orthodoxy man’s salvation and redemption mean his deification.” Ware, Timothy, The Orthodox Church (London: Penguin Books, 1964), 236.
36 Hebrews and I and II Peter, Calvin’s Commentaries, Johnston, William B., trans. (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1980), 330.
37 The Orthodox, 237.
38 Clendenin, “Partakers of Divinity: The Orthodox Doctrine of Theosis,” JETS 37:3 (September 1994): 373.
39 See Stanley Burgess’ “Implications of Eastern Christian Pneumatology for Western Pentecostal Doctrine and Practice” in Experiences of the Spirit, Jongeneel, Jan A.B., ed. (New York: Peter Lang, 1989). Most recently, Rybarczyk, Edmund J., “Spiritualities Old and New: Similarities Between Eastern Orthodoxy and Classical Pentecostalism,” Pneuma 24:1 (Spring 2002), 7-25.
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