... approach to marriage in the fourth century in order to understand a canonical Christian approach to family in which the family is defined as a microcosm of the church in pursuit of deification. The final section will turn to a specific health care issue, namely, labor and delivery, and consider the way...

... and encountering the personal God. Put differently, the purpose of Orthodox ethics is the deification of human beings. The second section defines secularization and explores its consequences for the theology and pastoral work of the Church. Europe is dominated by scholasticism and moralism, whereas Orthodox...

... Michael Gill God deification voluntarism mystery forgiveness superaddition In the fragile, fledgling days of the English Enlightenment reason had no better friend than Benjamin Whichcote. More precisely put: reason had no more loyal servant than Whichcote. He made it perfectly...

...This chapter begins the examination of Aquinas by asking: what does it mean to be deified? It is far from clear that Aquinas holds a doctrine of deification in the first place. One might spend long hours searching either of his Summae without encountering any reference...

...This chapter gathers the variegated strands of Palamas' doctrine of deification and groups them into two main themes. Identifying the principal themes of the Palamite doctrine of theosis will provide a understanding of how the doctrine functions in relation to Palamas' theology as a whole...

...Perhaps no declaration incites more theological and moral outrage than a human’s claim to be divine (or self-deification). Those who make this claim in ancient Jewish and Christian mythology are typically represented as the most hubristic and dangerous tyrants. Their horrible punishments...

...Symeon the New Theologian is one of the most outstanding Fathers of the Eastern Church. Almost ten centuries after his death, his teachings on the vision of God as light, on sanctity and dispassion, on ecstasy and deification, still attract many Christians who find inspiration in his writings...

.... This chapter also examines yogic displays by gods and Buddhas and the deification of yogis. Bhagavad Gītā bodhisattvas brahman Buddhists and Buddhism consciousness cosmology Kṛṣṇa Mahāyāna Buddhism Mokṣadharma Parvan Nārāyaṇa Purāṇas puruṣa puruṣottama name of Kṛṣṇa Rudra soteriology theism...

... also be rediscovered for our time. And certainly the New Testament is rich for imagining the meaning of salvation and the resurrection of the body—even the “deification” of human beings—for Christians in the 21st century. creation love myth mythology postmodernism science body idolatry...

...The categories of recapitulation, restoration, participation and deification elucidate the different patristic approaches to how the work of Christ transformed humanity, enabling believers to transcend their own nature and share in the life of the Trinity. By recapitulating the human race in his...

... the key to revelation. Clement also anticipates Dionysius, in thought if not in word, when he represents deification as the ascent of the soul through hierarchically ordered levels of knowledge and being, though Dionysius may be more severe in his differentiation of humans and angels. Bibliography...

..., and deification, which helped to strike a delicate balance between the polytheistic and monotheistic worlds. But the inherent difficulties posed by the Jesus Christ myth to any true-hearted monotheist are obvious. Achilles Aornos Augila Dionysos Divine Sonship Divinization God Greek and Greeks Herakles...

... subordination of women to men Anatolia Asketikon Basil of Caesarea Basil of Caesarea Gregory of Nyssa’s brother Naucratius Gregory of Nyssa’s brother Silvas Anna contemporary ethical discourse ethics Song of Songs bride bridegroom participation deification gender spiritual ascent Even since...

...The bishops, theologians, and monastics of the early centuries of Christianity were often the guides for Newman’s thoughts, writings, and actions in his own day. Newman was one of the first in the Western Church to retrieve Athanasius’s doctrine of deification, so his pre-eminence in the nineteenth...

... official doctrine in a way that minimizes its Reformation origins involves remarkable logical and rhetorical manoeuvres; by the end he appears to have abandoned most of what justification has meant, in favour of a neo-patristic understanding of divine presence, conceived as something like deification. 263...

... Christian theology Anselm saint Christianity theosis victory of Christ Western Christianity Jesus Christ Victor deification Dionysius the Areopagite divination The Doctrine of Deification in the Greek Patristic Tradition Russell likeness to God The Divinization of the Christian According...

...Sections 1-16 of the translation: Josephus explains Gaius’ ‘outrageous madness’, in particular his persecution of the Senate, his demand to be treated as a god, and his encouragement of slaves to inform on their masters Gaius emperor ‘Caligula’ Pheidias sculptor Caligula Gaius Caesar Deification...

...—deification and mortality—co-create one another. Justo and his deities protected Perico for many years, and yet he feared the banal: being caught in the nude, not looking fashionable, and sharing his age. Fernández Tabío Vladimir Osvaldo Fiction true Moret Law Slavery Zulueta Justo Zulueta Dueñas Hilda...

... of Agade ” droughts Gutians Zagros Mountains Akkadian period Sargon of Akkad Enheduana first known author En-priestess scribes Naram-Sin of Akkad rebellion first empire deification of king One day, around 2300 bce, a man was working in a storeroom in the city of Ur, probably...