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The paper aims to explore the doctrine of deification in Eastern thinkers and contrast it with Thomas Aquinas's perspective.

June 17, 2026

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The paper aims to explore the doctrine of deification in Eastern thinkers and contrast it with Thomas Aquinas's perspective.
Analyzing articles from the Oxford Handbook of Deification (2024)
Comparative study of Maximus the Confessor, Gregory Palamas, and Thomas Aquinas
Identifying challenges related to the concept of created grace
Highlights structural likenesses between Eastern and Western views on deification
Identifies created grace as a significant challenge in understanding deification
Suggests that despite differences, points of agreement exist in the views of the thinkers examined.

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Abstract In this paper, the author, starting from articles in the recent Oxford Handbook of Deification (2024), discusses some crucial points of the doctrine of deification in ‘Eastern’ thinkers like Maximus the Confessor and Gregory Palamas, in order to compare these two thinkers with the similar doctrine in Thomas Aquinas. The paper tries to identify where the problems lie and focuses on the concept of created grace as a challenge. Even if that constitutes a problem, the reading of some central texts seems to suggest that there are points at which there are at least some ‘structural likenesses’ between the ‘Eastern’ and the ‘Western’ opinion.

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Torstein Theodor Tollefsen (Sun,) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a323e36d50b63ecad207904 https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1111/ijst.70026

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