This book, written by a renowned spiritual writer and abbot of Gregoriou Monastery, Mount Athos, concerns the most important question faced by every human being, namely, for what purpose were we created? Drawing from the Holy Scriptures and the writings of the Church Fathers, Elder George shows that we were made in God’s image in order to reach even higher and attain to His likeness, to attain to personal union with Him. Our Creator, Who is God by nature, calls us to become gods by Grace, united with Him in love. This is the meaning of theosis. Although man cut off the path to theosis at the Fall, Christ—Who is the Way, the Truth and the Life—reopened it through His incarnation, death and resurrection. In the famous words of St. Athanasius the Great, “God became man so that man could become god.”
