Divine filiation is the Christian doctrine that Jesus Christ is the only-begotten Son of God by nature, and when Christians are redeemed by Jesus they become sons (and daughters) of God by adoption. This doctrine is held by most Christians,[1][2] but the phrase "divine filiation" is used primarily by Catholics. This doctrine is also referred to as divine sonship.
Divine filiation builds on other Christians doctrines. In the doctrine of the Trinity, God the Son is the Eternal Word spoken by God the Father. The doctrine of the Incarnation teaches that around 2000 years ago, God the Son assumed a human nature, "became flesh and dwelt among us" (John 1:14) as Jesus of Nazareth.
Divine filiation is the centerpiece of the Gospel, the Good News: it is the reason why humanity was saved. And is also the purpose behind baptism.[3] According to John Paul II, divine filiation is "the deepest mystery of the Christian vocation" and "the culminating point of the mystery of our Christian life...we share in salvation, which is not only the deliverance from evil, but is first of all the fullness of good: of the supreme good of the sonship of God."[4]
Divine filiation implies divinization: "For the Son of God became man so that we might become God".[5] "His divine power has given us everything we need for a godly life through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness. Through these he has given us his very great and precious promises, so that through them you may participate in the divine nature, having escaped the corruption in the world caused by evil desires" (2 Peter 1:4). "By Baptism, he incorporates us into the Body of his Christ; through the anointing of his Spirit who flows from the head to the members, he makes us other Christs".[6]
Divinefiliation is the Christian doctrine that Jesus Christ is the only-begotten Son of God by nature, and when Christians are redeemed by Jesus they...
guided to its destiny by Divine Providence. "Predestination" is God's plan to give each person eternal life through divinefiliation in Jesus through the...
Dei's spirit is a personal awareness of the Christian's "divinefiliation". [8] Divinefiliation is the Christian's fundamental state as a daughter or son...
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the Father were freely used in the Western Church. Ancient of Days Divinefiliation Father Time God Alone Eugenia Ravasio Sabellianism Sky father Gilles...
the world of demon worship." The God Worshipping Society believed in Divinefiliation, the scriptural concept that all Christian believers become sons and...
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exist. Those different degrees are called theological notes. Nicaea I: divinefiliation Ephesus: Mary is the Mother of God Chalcedon: Jesus is true man, with...
increase and deepening of baptismal grace: it roots us more deeply in the divinefiliation which makes us cry, "Abba! Father!" (Romans 8:15); it unites us more...
pharaoh to refer to himself by the epithet "Son of Ra". The pharaoh's divinefiliation asserts itself in the second part of the Fourth Dynasty: the royal...
roof.[citation needed] The association of Dius Fidius with Jupiter is divinefiliation. Dumézil underlines the peculiar intertwining and mixing of Jupiter...
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even cultural differences." Christianity portal Social trinitarianism Divinefiliation The longer form of the creed of Epiphanius (374) included the doctrine:...
which defines one God existing in three coequal, coeternal, consubstantial divine persons: God the Father, God the Son (Jesus Christ) and God the Holy Spirit...
morality as the scientific doctrine of the effective return of man to the Divinefiliation through the merits of Christ. In the earlier editions some of his expressions...
at least 650 BC. In written form, the nomen was usually followed by a filiation, indicating the personal name of an individual's father, and sometimes...
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