Welcome back to the Word on Fire Show. I'm Brandon Vot, the senior publishing director at Word on Fire.

Today we share with you a sample from an exciting new course inside the Word on Fire Institute.

The course is titled The One Christ, Augustinian Deification.

It's taught by Father David McConey, a great Jesuit theologian,

and it focuses on the process that has become known as theosis or divinization or deification.

It's the idea that God became man so that man could become God,

so that we can participate in the divine nature.

In this course, Father McConey specifically looks at St. Augustin's teaching about deification,

walking us through the history of Christian teaching on this issue,

and showing that Christians don't only have a relationship with Christ,

but we're called to truly become one with Him.

Today we share a sample which is lesson one of that course.

If you'd like to receive all of the lessons in this course,

then join the Word on Fire Institute.

Now is a great time to do that. When you do, you get access to tons of great courses like this,

you get access to all of Bishop Aaron's films and study programs.

You get the amazingly beautiful evangelization and culture journal, some books,

and all sorts of other great things.

So sign up today at the website Word on Fire.Institute.

But for now, enjoy lesson one from Father David McConey's course on the One Christ,

Augustinian Deification. Enjoy.

I'm Father David McConey, Jesuit priest, professor, and director of the Catholic Studies Center at St. Louis University.

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