Called to Be the Children of God: The Catholic Theology of Human Deification

by David Meconi Sj, Carl E. Olson, David Vincent Meconi

This book gathers fourteen Catholic scholars to present, examine, and explain the often misunderstood process of deification. The fifteen chapters show what becoming God meant for the early Church, for St. Thomas Aquinas and the greatest Dominicans, and for St. Francis and the early Franciscans. This book explains how this understanding of salvation played out during the Protestant Reformation and the Council of Trent. It explores the thought of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1586179470
• ISBN13: 9781586179472
• Release Date: April 2016
• Publisher: Ignatius Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.9"