Orthodox ConceptsTheosis (Deification)
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Theosis (Deification)
Goal of the Christian life in which believers participate in the uncreated energies of God, becoming by grace what God is by nature.
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Core theological convictions that ground every other Orthodox concept.
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Holy Trinity
→Confession that the one God eternally exists as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, three divine Persons (hypostases) sharing the one essence.
Incarnation
→The mystery that the eternal Word (Logos) assumed human nature from the Theotokos, uniting divinity and humanity in the one Person of Jesus Christ.
Hypostatic Union
→Doctrine that Christ's divine and human natures remain without confusion, change, division, or separation in the one hypostasis of the Son.