A Theological Puzzle

Something to ponder, and this is from memory so I might get it a little wrong. But it’s been puzzling me.

St. Gregory Palamas asserted that the fall of man was not an ontological change but an anthropological one.

Metropolititan John Zizioulas asserts that Baptism is an ontological change.

So is Salvation ontological or anthropological?

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