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Shapiro, Arthur M. "Uhl's Deification." Science 252, no. 5014 (June 28, 1991): 1769. http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.252.5014.1769.b.

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Shapiro, Arthur M. "Uhl's Deification." Science 252, no. 5014 (June 28, 1991): 1769. http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.252.5014.1769-b.

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SHAPIRO, A. M. "Uhl's Deification." Science 252, no. 5014 (June 28, 1991): 1769. http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.252.5014.1769-a.

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Mosser, Carl. "The greatest possible blessing: Calvin and deification." Scottish Journal of Theology 55, no. 1 (February 2002): 36–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0036930602000133.

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Many assume that the patristic notion of deification is absent from the mainstreams of post-patristic Western theology. Recent scholarship, however, identifies deification in Augustine, Aquinas, Luther, early Anglicanism, early Methodism and Jonathan Edwards – all fountainheads of Western theology. This article contends that deification is also present in Calvin's theology. It is not a prominent theme in its own right and some of the bolder patristic terminology is not employed. Nonetheless, the concept and imagery of deification regularly appear on stage while other doctrines are explicated. For Calvin, deification is the eschatological goal and blessing greater than which nothing can be imagined.
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Lee, Chung-Man. "Deification and Covenant: Gregory of Nyssa’s Thought on Deification." Korean Journal of Christian Studies 117 (July 31, 2020): 103–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.18708/kjcs.2020.07.117.1.103.

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Litwa, M. David. "Gnostic Self-Deification: The Case of Simon of Samaria." Gnosis 1, no. 1-2 (July 11, 2016): 157–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/2451859x-12340009.

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This essay argues that gnostic deification can be redescribed as self-deification. Self-deification, it is argued, is realized in three “moments”: (1) the intuition of one’s own divine core, (2) deeply reflexive practices of self-knowledge, and (3) identification with a higher divine self. These three moments are contextualized with the help of ancient philosophy and several gnostic texts. Finally, a case study on Simon of Samaria illustrates how the three moments of self-deification play out.
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Keating, Daniel A. "Typologies of Deification." International Journal of Systematic Theology 17, no. 3 (June 2, 2015): 267–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ijst.12106.

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Morgan, Jonathan. "The Role of Asceticism in Deification in Cyril of Alexandria’s Festal Letters." Downside Review 135, no. 3 (June 15, 2017): 144–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0012580617712950.

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Scholars agree that Cyril of Alexandria is an important patristic proponent of the doctrine of deification. The concept is ubiquitous throughout his writings and often couched in Scriptural phraseology. In his Festal Letters, however, his usual passages of Scripture and the traditional terminology to describe deification are absent. In this essay, I argue that in spite of the dearth of deification language in these letters, Cyril teaches its basic tenets but within a pastoral context that emphasizes the dynamic, practical means of deification through an ascetic lifestyle. While not ignoring the role of divine grace in salvation through the work of Christ and the indwelling Spirit, Cyril stresses that asceticism is an essential means by which deification occurs in believers. This particular emphasis in the Festal Letters brings into focus both Cyril’s concerns as a pastor as well as the synergistic and holistic dynamics of his soteriology.
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Olson, Roger E. "Deification in Contemporary Theology." Theology Today 64, no. 2 (July 2007): 186–200. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/004057360706400205.

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Although the concept of theosis, or deification, is usually associated with Eastern Orthodoxy, it has enjoyed an ecumenical renaissance in modern and contemporary Christian theology. Nevertheless, not all uses of the idea are equal; some fall short of its full significance in Orthodox soteriology. Within Orthodox theology deification has become the cause of some debate. The Palamite essence/energies distinction is essential if the idea of deification is not to lead to panentheism.
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Despotis, Athanasios. "From Conversion according to Paul and “John” to Theosis in the Greek Patristic Tradition." Horizons in Biblical Theology 38, no. 1 (April 19, 2016): 88–109. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18712207-12341317.

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This paper investigates the question of deification in two groups of New Testament texts, i.e. the Pauline Epistles and the “Johannine literature” (fourth Gospel and Epistles of “John”), as well as the Greek patristic tradition. Though a specialized vocabulary referring to deification is missing from these groups of texts, Greek fathers used a very sophisticated combination of Pauline and “Johannine” concepts for the development of their respective theologies of deification. This study tries to explain why the patristic theologies of deification are so closely emulating Paul and “John” and it detects a common line that runs through the background of Paul and “John” as well as the patristic notion of theosis, namely the experience of the beginnings of the Christian life as an ontological transformation, i.e. conversion.
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Deification"

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Barbee, David. ""That we might be made God" themes of deification in western medieval Catholicism /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN) Access this title online, 2005. http://www.tren.com.

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Russell, Norman. "The concept of deification in the early Greek fathers." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1988. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.253819.

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Russell, Norman. "The doctrine of deification in the Greek patristic tradition /." Oxford : Oxford university press, 2004. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb39936007n.

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Park, Sung Woo. "The question of deification in the theology of John Calvin." Thesis, University of Pretoria, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/61199.

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Under the influence of the Christian ecumenical movement, there has been a tendancy to reread the Western theological tradition through the lens of the Eastern idea of deification. The studies of the theology of John Calvin, who is a leading figure in the Reformation tradition, cannot avoid such a tendency, either. Not a few scholars have affirmed Calvin's doctrine of deification, in a way, akin to the Eastern doctrine of deification, by rereading him from the perspective of the Eastern Orthodoxy. However, with the objection to this interpretation by those who deny the presence of the idea of deification in Calvin, the question of deification in Calvin's theology has been a grave issue of an ongoing debate among Calvin scholars. The current debate on the question of deification in Calvin shows that the following three issues form the frame of reference for reasoning the question: Calvin's understanding of the communication of properties between Christ's two natures in the hypostatic union, the nature of his notion of union with Christ, and his idea of the nature of the salvific gift. The observations of Calvin's ideas about the three issues render incapacitate any attempt to find the idea of deification as participation in the intrinsic divine life in his theology. Calvin's rejection of the direct communication of properties from Christ's divinity to His humanity renders impossible the deification of Christ's humanity, which is marked as the basis of our deification by the interpreters who endorse his doctrine of deification as in the Eastern Orthodox tradition. Calvin's idea of the spiritual and personal union with Christ, in which the ontological distinctiveness between Christ and us is guaranteed, disapproves the idea that the intrinsic divine life flows to us through the channel of Christ's humanity in our union with Him. Therefore it can be reasonably concluded that as far as deification is construed as the believers' participation in the intrinsic divine life, mediated by Christ's humanity in their union with Christ, it is hard to hold that Calvin teaches deification.
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Choi, Jacob Heangkwon. "Augustinian interiority : the teleological deification of the soul through Divine Grace." Thesis, Durham University, 2010. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/316/.

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Augustinian interiority is a way of deifying ourselves in order to attain true happiness(i.e., teleology). Augustine approaches deification chiefly in terms of the ‘image of God’, from the perspectives of ontology and teleology. Ontologically, we are created inthe image of God and this image is indestructible as long as God sustains our life. Teleologically, the image has been deformed (and true happiness has become a remote reality for us) due to the Fall. Humanity therefore needs to be restored. How, then, can we renew the image? Augustine observes that the more we know and love God, the more we become like Him. How, then, can we get to know who/what God really is? This is what Augustinian interiority concerns: its intellectual dimension (i.e., knowing God) cannot be separated from its ethical dimension (i.e., loving God. The desire for true happiness, which is God, is universal among us. Since we cannot strive for what we do not know, we must know something about happiness before we pursue it, and the knowledge must be innate in our memory. In addition, learning/knowing a thing is refreshing our latent memory of that thing. Eventually, our endeavour to understand God is, in fact, an attempt to recall wholly what we have already known about Him. Why, then, do we remember so little about God – especially His immaterial nature? This is because we are preoccupied with material and worldly things. Thus, passing beyond the world of senses, we must make an effort to grasp the reality of the soul, which is, like God, incorporeal and rational: the soul is the best clue to knowledge of God. Then, we will be able to perceive correctly God’s immanence, omnipresence, and transcendence. Faith is crucial for making progress in our intellectual and ethical ascent to God. However, it is not enough just to believe revealed truths, but we must try to understand them by all means possible. In this way, we can cling to God with our mind and heart, be deified, and move closer to true happiness. Yet, we need to bear two things in mind. One is that without divine grace nothing is possible for us. The other is that, although we cannot know God completely in this life, we must hope for it and love to increase our theological knowledge.
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張玉淸 and Yuk-ching Lucia Cheung. "The making of a god: the deification of Chairman Mao Zedong." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1997. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31214022.

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Byers, Andrew Jason. "Johannine theosis : the Fourth Gospel's narrative ecclesiology of participation and deification." Thesis, Durham University, 2014. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/10908/.

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Though John’s Gospel has been widely understood as ambivalent toward the idea of “church,” this thesis argues that ecclesiology is as central a Johannine concern as Christology. For the fourth evangelist, there is neither a Christless church nor a churchless Christ. Jesus is consistently depicted in the Gospel as a figure that destabilizes the social construct and generates a new communal entity. Rather than focusing on the community behind the text, the following study concentrates on the vision of community prescribed within the text. This vision is presented as a “narrative ecclesiology” by which the concept of “church” gradually unfolds throughout the Gospel’s sequence. Attending to this cumulative development, it will be argued that Johannine ecclesiology entails a corporate participation in the interrelation between the Father and Son, a participation helpfully described by the later patristic language of theosis. Before drawing on this theological discourse the thesis will provide exegesis on the theme of participation within the Prologue and the oneness motif. John 1:1–18 is recognized as one of the most influential Christological texts in early Christianity, but the passage’s Christology is inseparably bound to ecclesiology. The Prologue even establishes an “ecclesial narrative script”—an ongoing pattern of resocialization into the community around Jesus or, more negatively, of social re-entrenchment within the “world”—that governs the Gospel’s plot. The oneness theme functions within this script and draws on the Jewish theological language of the Shema: the Johannine claim to be “one” signifies that Christ-devotion does not constitute a departure from the “one God” of their Jewish religious tradition; moreover, to be “one” with this “one God” and his “one Shepherd” involves the believers’ participation within the divine family. Such participation warrants an ecclesial identity summed up in Jesus’ citation of Psalm 82: “you are gods.”
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Blackwell, Benjamin C. "The two natures of Christ and deification in Maximus the Confessor." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2002. http://www.tren.com.

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Cheung, Yuk-ching Lucia. "The making of a god : the deification of Chairman Mao Zedong /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1997. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B18565918.

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Borysov, Eduard. "Union with the Triune God : interpretations of the participationist dimensions of Paul's soteriology." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 2016. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk:80/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=231021.

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In recent years as supposedly “Lutheran” readings of Paul's doctrine of “justification by faith” have increasingly come under attack, and as the weaknesses of the New Perspective on Paul have been identified, there has been a growing interest in reading the apostle as teaching something best understood in participationist terms (chapter 2). Particularly, there have been multiple attempts to retrieve the patristic concept of “theosis” as a counterpart of union with Christ. This move is particularly associated with the work of Michael J. Gorman, Stephen Finlan, M. David Litwa and Ben C. Blackwell and is connected to the recent interest in deification as a widespread concept in Christian theology, one with significant ecumenical potential (as attested by the Finnish Lutheran School). To date, however, inadequate attention has been paid to the complex character and history of theosis in the theological tradition, meaning that the word is used in biblical studies in a way that is over-simplistic. All of the studies to read Paul in terms of theosis have been too over-imposing (Litwa), too narrow (Blackwell) or too general (Gorman, Finlan) in their comparison of Paul with the Jewish, Greco-Roman, and Orthodox traditions to properly address the validity of the category of theosis for the analysis of Paul. This study will deal with this deficiency by tracing the four trajectories of theosis in the patristic era (chapter 3). This dissertation proffers a concept, tentatively labelled triadosis, which intends to present the whole complex that is treated elementally in the various trajectories. Further exploring what we have labelled triadosis in the later theological traditions, chapter 4 rereads Luther and Calvin with the help of the Finnish Lutheran School and J. Todd Billings. These scholars argue that the idea of union with Christ is central for both Luther and Calvin and always includes the Father and the Spirit, hence presuming a Trinitarian dimensio The final chapter addresses the deficiencies of three major proponents of theosis as an appropriate category to describe Paul's soteriology. This analysis stresses that the historical rediscovery of deification in surrounding culture should not minimise the apostle's distinction from his polytheistic contemporaries (Litwa). Equally, the Christocentric soteriology misplaces the appropriate emphasis on the Father and the Spirit (Blackwell). Finally, the use of essentialist terminology should be grounded in patristic and contemporary theological discussions (Gorman). Thus, the theme of triadosis helps the reader to view Paul's soteriology as the Father's endeavour to bring redeemed humanity in union with himself in Christ through the power of the Holy Spirit.
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Books on the topic "Deification"

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Himmerich, Maurice Fred. Deification in John of Damascus. Ann Arbor, MI: University Microfilms International, 1985.

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Collins, Paul M. Partaking in divine nature: Deification and communion. London: T&T Clark, 2010.

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Norman, Keith E. Deification: The content of Athanasian soteriology. Provo, Utah: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies at Brigham Young University, 2000.

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Chatterjee, Asoke. Deities and deification in the Brahmapurāṇa. Varanasi, India: All-India Kashiraj Trust, 1989.

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Norman, Keith E. Deification: The content of Athanasian soteriology. Ann Arbor, Mich: University Microfilms International, 1989.

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The Hindu Temple: Deification of eroticism. Rochester, Vt: Inner Traditions, 2001.

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Partaking in divine nature: Deification and communion. London: T&T Clark, 2010.

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The undreamed has happened: God lives within us. Scranton, PA: University of Scranton Press, 2003.

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Litwa, M. David. We are being transformed: Deification in Paul's soteriology. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2012.

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We are being transformed: Deification in Paul's soteriology. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2012.

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Book chapters on the topic "Deification"

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Graves, Mark. "Deification." In The Routledge Companion to Christian Ethics, 482–96. London: Routledge, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780429345081-40.

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Grice, Francis. "The Deification of Mao." In The Myth of Mao Zedong and Modern Insurgency, 187–201. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-77571-5_6.

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Sinclair, John McH. "The deification of information." In Patterns of Text, 287–314. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2001. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/z.107.14sin.

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Arblaster, John, and Rob Faesen. "Introduction." In Mystical Doctrines of Deification, 1–4. New York : Routledge, 2018. | Series: Contemporary theological explorations in mysticism: Routledge, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781351189118-1.

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Exall, Maria. "“Becoming a cross to thyself”." In Mystical Doctrines of Deification, 116–34. New York : Routledge, 2018. | Series: Contemporary theological explorations in mysticism: Routledge, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781351189118-10.

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Nelstrop, Louise. "The Monk of Farne." In Mystical Doctrines of Deification, 135–51. New York : Routledge, 2018. | Series: Contemporary theological explorations in mysticism: Routledge, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781351189118-11.

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Tyler, Peter. "Psychology, theosis, and the soul." In Mystical Doctrines of Deification, 152–64. New York : Routledge, 2018. | Series: Contemporary theological explorations in mysticism: Routledge, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781351189118-12.

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Ciraulo, Jonathan Martin. "Hans Urs von Balthasar’s indifference to divinization." In Mystical Doctrines of Deification, 165–85. New York : Routledge, 2018. | Series: Contemporary theological explorations in mysticism: Routledge, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781351189118-13.

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Limone, Vito. "Θεοποιεῖσθαι and δοξάζεσθαι." In Mystical Doctrines of Deification, 5–15. New York : Routledge, 2018. | Series: Contemporary theological explorations in mysticism: Routledge, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781351189118-2.

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Lemeni, Daniel. "“You can become all flame”." In Mystical Doctrines of Deification, 16–34. New York : Routledge, 2018. | Series: Contemporary theological explorations in mysticism: Routledge, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781351189118-3.

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Conference papers on the topic "Deification"

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Kučerková, Magda. "The heart as an image of deification in mystical writing." In The Figurativeness of the Language of Mystical Experience. Brno: Masaryk University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.5817/cz.muni.p210-9997-2021-11.

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The paper explores two phenomena powerful in life and interpretive terms: the heart and deification. One is understood as deeply human, the other as metaphysically appealing. It is a connection present in the history of Christian thinking for a long time, since the heart is perceived as an inner space where God meets man, in the most intimate form, which can only acquire the character of unification. Deification, as the experience of Christian mystics and mystics shows, basically means the deepest unification with God and activation of the change in God’s love. The issue examined in the paper is presented in the form of a brief guide to the theological concept of deification, and also the convergence of the historical and biblical views of the heart. The core of thinking about the topic is the interpretation of the heart as an inner image the (heart as the center, exchange of hearts) and the interpretation of the phenomenality of deification in the context of written mystical experience.
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