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Entry: Theosis in White Harlem Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/theosis_in_white_harlem#8635 Post contents: Mr. M. Van Oosbree, While, as my posts above show, I do not accept everything that Mr. Purcell has written, there is no contradiction between God becoming man because of his great love for us, and God becoming man so that we might become gods. It is because he loves us that he wishes to elevate us. The Catechism of the Catholic Church 460, citing Scripture, the Fathers, and St. Thomas Aquinas says: 460 The Word became flesh to make us "partakers of the divine nature": "For this is why the Word became man, and the Son of God became the Son of man: so that man, by entering into communion with the Word and thus receiving divine sonship, might become a son of God." "For the Son of God became man so that we might become God." "The only-begotten Son of God, wanting to make us sharers in his divinity, assumed our nature, so that he, made man, might make men gods." (http://www.vatican.va/archive/catechism/p122a3p1.htm) Take Mr. Salvo's advice and read Jean Borella, esp. Part III of his book "The Sense of the Supernatual", "The Rediscovered Life of Faith: The Deifying Glory." Sent at: 2008 10 06