To become a partaker of divine nature is to receive the life of God truly by grace, while the divine essence remains transcendent and unconfused.
treatise
The Triads
Palamas articulates prayer, illumination, and participation in divine energies without confusion of essence.
Attributed to
St. Gregory PalamasCorpus
1 commentary entries from 1 Father across 1 chapter of Second Peter.
Linked passages
2 Peter 1:4John 1:4
Union with God is real and transformative, yet it is received as grace; the creature does not become the divine essence.
Related passage: 2 Peter 1:4
Second Peter 1
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