We were given the full courage to appropriate our “full and final participation” through and in Jesus, who clearly believed that God was not so much inviting us into a distant heaven, but inviting us into Godself as friends and co-participants already now. Remember, we are not talking about a perfect psychological or moral wholeness in humans, which is never the case, and probably this is why many dismiss the doctrine of divinization—or feel rightly incapable of it. I am talking about a freely and objectively implanted “sharing in the divine nature” as a gift from
