1. This is actually one of Schreiter’s criteria for evaluating the performance of a local theology. Robert J. Schreiter, Constructing Local Theologies (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 1985), 118.
2. J. N. D. Kelly, Early Christian Doctrines, rev. ed. (New York: Harper and Row, 1978), 171. Irenaeus, Against Heresies 3.18.1.
3. Vladimir Lossky, The Mystical Theology of the Eastern Church (Crestwood, NY: St Vladimir’s Seminary Press, 1976), 114–134.
4. Timothy Ware, The Orthodox Church, new ed. (London: Penguin Books, 1997), 219–221.
5. Gösta Hallonsten, “Theosis in Recent Research: A Renewal of Interest and a Need for Clarity,” in Partakers of the Divine Nature: The History and Development of Deification in the Christian Traditions, ed. Michael J. Christensen and Jeffery A. Wittung (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker, 2007), 285.