Is the Deification of Man an Unchristian, Unbiblical Doctrine? Kerry A. Shirts
This paper will explore the idea using Biblical and extra-biblical materials showing how new research from the Dead Sea Scrolls as well as from the Syriac Christian perspective has opened the field into interesting possibilities not thought feasible by many in Western Christianity until now. Crispin H.T. Fletcher-Louis has noted that the Qumran writings held a belief in an angelmorphic or divine humanity, which is rooted “in the prelapsarian identity of Adam, which is then recovered by Israel, her patriarchal heroes, her lawgiver, mediatorial figures such as the priest, king and...
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