All The Fulness

Cutting to the Root

Sometimes what are made out to be quite complex problems are actually quite simple if one sees to the root of them.  The problem of "homosexuals in the clergy" is one such.  Amy Welborn has an outstanding post on this topic.  She cuts to the heart of the problem in this paragraph:

The problem is not, in simple terms, the homosexual priest. The problem is priests who don't believe what the Catholic Church teaches on sexuality, who don't preach it, who don't witness to it in the confessional, and who don't live it in their private lives.

Forensic justification, imputed righteousness, and theosis

[The following post was originally posted, in a slightly different form, on the Orthodox-Lutheran Dialogue forum.]

Is there a conflict between the doctrine of theosis, which is strongly emphasized in Eastern Orthodoxy, and the Reformational idea of "forensic justification" and "imputed righteousness"?  It would seem that Protestant soteriology is about being "declared righteous" and Orthodox (and Catholic) soteriology is all about being "made righteous":  forensic vs. transformative.