Divinization: Becoming Icons of Christ through the Liturgy
Digital Logos Edition
Overview
Divinization: Becoming Icons of Christ through the Liturgy explains the startling claim, so often overlooked, that God transforms the Christian people through the Church s liturgy to share in his divine nature. This resource serves as an excellent introduction to the Catholic theology of divinization through the Liturgy. This remarkable work forms a coherent introduction to how God makes the faithful in the pews partakers in his divine nature through the action of the liturgy.
Written as an accessible introduction to the often misunderstood Catholic teaching on divinization, this remarkable study examines the claim that God transforms the Christian people through the Church’s liturgy to share in his divine nature. Although the essays in this collection vary in both authorship and in focus, the work as a whole forms a coherent introduction to the way in which God makes the faithful in the pews partakers in his divine nature through the action of the liturgy. Featuring essays by David W. Fagerberg, Andrew D. Swafford, Daria Spezzano, Michael G. Sirilla, and Andrew Hofer, OP, this remarkable collection explores the Church’s teachings on divinization in relation to Scripture, liturgical theology, pastoral teaching, liturgical renewal, and evangelization.
- Explores the Church’s teachings on divinization
- Examines the claim that God transforms the Christian people through the Church’s liturgy
- Forms a coherent introduction to how God makes the faithful in the pews partakers in his divine nature
- Introduction: Becoming Icons of Christ
- From Divinization to Evangelization: An Overview - David W. Fagerberg
- A Biblical Look at Divinization - Andrew D. Swafford
- Aquinas, Divinization, and the People in the Pews - Andrew Hofer, OP
- Divinization and Liturgical Renewal - Daria Spezzano
- Divinization for the New Evangelization - Michael G. Sirilla
- Conclusion: Saintly Love - Andrew Hofer, OP
- Title: Divinization: Becoming Icons of Christ through the Liturgy
- Author: Andrew Hofer OP
- Publisher: Liturgy Training Publications
- Print Publication Date: 2015
- Pages: 166
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- ISBNs: 9781595250414, 1595250417
- Resource ID: LLS:DVNZTNBCMNLTRGY
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2025-01-02T19:12:51Z
Fr. Andrew Hofer, O.P. (MDiv, Ph.D.) grew up as the youngest of ten children on a Kansas farm. He entered the Dominican Province of St. Joseph in 1995 and professed simple vows the following year. He made his profession of solemn vows in the Great Jubilee Year of 2000, and was ordained a deacon in 2001 and a priest in 2002.
His assignments have included serving as a parochial vicar in Rhode Island, a missionary in Kenya, a doctoral student at the University of Notre Dame, a formator at the Dominican House of Studies, a member of the Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception, and a formator at St. Dominic Priory in Washington. Since the fall of 2021, he has been the editor of the journal The Thomist, for which he previously was book review editor.