Editing Divinization (Christian) (section)

===Anabaptist theology===
The early [[Anabaptists]] wrote quite extensively on the idea of theosis. [[Hutterite]] leader [[Peter Riedemann]] wrote, for example: {{quote|This shall be the covenant that I will make with them. I will set my law within them and write it on their hearts, and all of them shall know me. {{Bibleverse|Jeremiah|31:33|KJV}} {{Bibleverse|Hebrews|8:10|KJV}} Through this knowledge, a person is led to God, is grafted into him, and becomes a fellow member of his nature and essence.<ref>{{cite book | vauthors=Riedemann P, Friesen JJ | date= 1999 | title=Peter Riedemann's Hutterite Confession of Faith: Translation of the 1565 German Edition of ''Confession of Our Religion, Teaching, and Faith by the Brothers Who Are Known as the Hutterites''| publisher=Herald Press | isbn=0-8361-3122-3 | page=117 | language=English}}</ref>}}

Among the [[Mennonite|Dutch Mennonites]], [[Dirk Philips]] and [[Menno Simons]] wrote about the concept of theosis in many of their writings. Dirk Philips explained, for example, that although humans cannot become God, per se, they can become like Him in character: {{quote|In order to understand this yet more thoroughly, everyone should observe the similarity and fellowship of God and Christ with all believers; that is, that all believers are participants of the divine nature, yes, and are called gods and children of the Most High {{Bibleverse|2 Peter|1:4|KJV}} {{Bibleverse|Acts|17:28|KJV}} {{Bibleverse|Psalms|82:6|KJV}}, and are in the world as Christ was the world, and shall become like him at his coming. {{Bibleverse|John|10:34|KJV}} {{Bibleverse|John|1:12|KJV}} Whenever now human beings become participants in the divine nature, yes, conformed to Christ on earth and in heaven {{Bibleverse|Romans|8:14|KJV}} {{Bibleverse|1 John|3:1|KJV}}, they yet do not become identical in nature and person to what God and Christ are. Oh, no! The creature will never become the Creator and the flesh will never become the eternal itself which God is {{Bibleverse|John|4:24|KJV}}, for this is impossible. But the believers become gods and children of the most high through the new birth, participation, and fellowship of the divine nature {{Bibleverse|John|3:3|KJV}}, of the piety, glory, and purity of eternal life, and they will be purified as God, shine as God shines, and live as God lives eternally. {{Bibleverse|John|6:47|KJV}}<ref>{{cite book | veditors=Dyck CJ, Keeney WE, Beachy AJ | date=1 February 1992 | title=The Writings of Dirk Philips | publisher=Herald Press | isbn=0-8361-3111-8 | page=145 | language=English}}</ref>}}

Among the South German [[mysticism|Mystics]] that became Anabaptists, the concept of divinization was also taught. In his confession, [[Hans Hut]] explained that holding spiritual communion with Christ would deify a person: {{quote|Whoever is thus-minded and drinks the invisible wine out of the invisible Cup, mixed by God from the beginning of time through his Son, the Word, will become drunk. He does not know anything about himself any more, but becomes deified (vergottet) through the love of God while God becomes incarnate in him (vermenscht). This what is meant when we speak of the eating of body and the drinking of the blood of Christ (John 6).<ref>{{cite book | vauthors=Denck H | date=1 January 1976 | title=Selected Writings of Hans Denck | publisher=Pickwick Press | isbn=978-0-915138-15-9 | page=21 | language=English}}</ref>}}

For the early Anabaptist Matthias Servaes, baptism signified a dying to the old nature and "an incorporation into the unity of one mind, resulting in identical natures, patterned after God who is their Father, and becoming dead to the world, that is, to all unrighteousness and crucifying their flesh daily, no longer allowing sin to reign or have the upper hand in them, as Paul clearly tells the Romans (Chapter 6), with many clear words."<ref>{{cite book | date= August 1999 | title=Golden Apples in Silver Bowls | publisher=Lancaster Mennonite Historical Society | isbn=1-884732-05-4 | page=187 | language=English}}</ref>