Notes: CHAPTER SIX
1 .Origen De Principiis Book 1 chap. 3 para 6
2. Ibid
3. e.g. First epistle of Clement chap. 11
4. Deification as a term and concept was quite widely understood amongst the early Fathers in the context of Christian salvation and is prevalent today more particularly within Eastern Orthodoxy. In the West, Thomas Aquinas (13th Century) denoted deification to be the end purpose of human existence.
5. Joseph Ratzinger, “Meditations on the Way of the cross,” Good Friday, 2005,
6. Epistle of Ignatius to the Philippians (spurious) Chap. IV