Western Latin Theology – My Doxa (i.e., private opinion)
The prevailing Western Theology of Augustine, Anselm, and Aquinas (A3), and doubled-down by Calvin, is:
- Un-revealed (i.e., natural theology)
- Un-helpful
- Un-fortunate
It seems to me that Western Christians “become communicants in the divine nature“1 through divinization (theosis) in spite of their official theology; not because of it.
A more supportive, complementary theology is to be found in the ancient Christian East, not in the modern Latin West.
- Hart, David Bentley, The New Testament, A Translation, 2nd Ed. Yale University Press, New London, 2023. 2 Peter 1:4, p. 473. ↩︎
First Thoughts 