Deification and the New Jerusalem Come to China...
First a small personal announcement, and then a much more important one following. Read on... First, the personal: it turns out I'm now a published author in Chinese! Specifically my chapter "Deification and the Eschatological City: Exegetical and Theological Connections in Early Christian Thought" (成神论与末世之城：早期基督教思想中的解经和神学联系) in this Chinese translation of the recent English book Transformed into the Same Image: Constructive Investigations into the Doctrine of Deification (InterVarsity Press Academic, 2024) , edited by Paul Copan and Michael Reardon. The chapter has to do with the frequent juxtaposition of Rev. 21-22 (the New Jerusalem) and Psa. 82 (a classic passage pointing to deification in antiquity) pointed to by the early church fathers. Interesting, sure. But there's a more interesting and far more important story here, and this on two levels... Zooming out a bit now. This book, Transformed Into the same Image , was in fact a groundbreaking book in English whe...