This paper investigates the question of deification in two groups of New Testament texts, i.e. the Pauline Epistles and the “Johannine literature” (fourth Gospel and Epistles of “John”), as well as the Greek patristic tradition. Though a specialized vocabulary referring to deification is missing from these groups of texts, Greek fathers used a very sophisticated combination of Pauline and “Johannine” concepts for the development of their respective theologies of deification. This study tries to explain why the patristic theologies of deification are so closely emulating Paul and “John” and it detects a common line that runs through the background of Paul and “John” as well as the patristic notion of theosis, namely the experience of the beginnings of the Christian life as an ontological transformation, i.e. conversion.

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从保罗和约翰的皈依到希腊教父传统中的神论

本文研究了两组新约经文中的神化问题，即保罗书信和“约翰文学”（第四福音和“约翰”的书信），以及希腊教父传统。尽管这些文本组中缺少一个专门的与神化有关的词汇，但希腊教父们使用了宝琳和“约翰”概念的非常复杂的组合来发展他们各自的神化神学。本研究试图解释为什么教父神化神学如此密切地模仿保罗和“约翰”，它发现了一条贯穿保罗和“约翰”的背景以及教父神学观念的共同点，即基督徒生活的开始是一种本体论的转变，即皈依。