In Our Divine Double, Charles Stang offers an alternate history of deification in late antiquity. Rather than focus on deification as participation in the death and resurrection of Christ often associated with the Trinitarian controversies, Stang suggests looking for a doctrine of deification left behind – salvation as the recognition of the self precisely as other. To recover this earlier understanding, Stang traces the “figure” of the divine double in its various manifestations in a set of 2nd and 3rd c. CE texts from early Christianity, Manichaeism, and late Platonism.
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