ABSTRACT
Rob Faesen discusses John of Fécamp, a Benedictine abbot whose Confessio theologica was extremely popular throughout the Middle Ages but whose name is not well known because his work was attributed to various other authors, including Augustine. Commenting on some remarkable passages from book II of the Confessio, Faesen demonstrates the fundamentally Christological nature of deification in John of Fécamp’s thought. Through the Incarnation, death, and resurrection of Christ, and his subsequent ascension into heaven, John argues, all human persons are glorified in the glorified flesh of Christ. Theosis is thus, in a certain sense, a universal reality. Faesen then traces the ways in John conceives of this reality being brought to fulfilment in the concrete lives of human persons.
