“The central idea of the Eastern Patristic fathers was the idea of “theosis”, of deification (“obozhenie”) of the creature, of the transfiguration of the world, of the cosmos, and not the idea of personal salvation… Only later did the Christian consciousness hold in greater esteem the idea of hell, rather than the transfiguration and theosis of the world… The Kingdom of God is the transfiguration of the world, the universal resurrection, a new heaven and a new earth.”
–Nikolai Berdyaev, “Salvation and Creativity: Two Understandings of Christianity”, 1926
Berdyaev Online Library: http://www.berdyaev.com/berdiaev/berd_lib/1926_308.html
