divinization
divinisation BrE

There is no room in this for the divinization of a nation, of a class, let alone of an individual.

The divinization of man through sonship is real and metaphysical.

He envisions true spirituality to be the divinization of earthly life through spiritual practice.

In the culture of theological discussion this concept is often termed Divinization (Christian).

Indeed, even the divinization of humanity, as an abstract totality, would not be in the spirit of that ideal.

There were many varied references to divinization in the writings of the Church Fathers, including the following:

This theology of divinization remains one of the achievements particularly dear to Eastern Christian thought."

Exaltation is often referred to as being a more literal belief in both the ancient and modern Christian doctrine of deification or divinization.

Thus, the Fathers of the Church referred to the deification or divinization of the baptized.

For this divinization, Sadhana proceeds in 4 stages that go on simultaneously and consecutively at the same time.

Divinization (Christian)

The Eastern Orthodox Church holds that "there is a state beyond death where believers continue to be perfected and led to full divinization".

Perhaps one of the most notable factors of this sage is the claim that he supposedly attained a divinization of the physical body.

The Latter Day Saint movement teaches the doctrine of exaltation, by which is meant a literal divinization.

Divinization (disambiguation)

Apart from Doody's specific use of the word, incarnation is a theological term describing the divinization of history and the material order.

Western Christians often vigorously avoid the terminology of deification, divinization, or theosis, while not necessarily rejecting the intended doctrine expressed in different terms.

The Cumaean Sibyl inspecting the road prophesies Domitian's divinization.

Male shamans use to play the role of the Goddess and the divinization of Pendrani Goddess is established.

By a broader interpretation of the term, the mass could be considered theurgy in the sense that it contributes to the divinization henosis of the participants.

The process of divinization is the center of gravity around which move Rahner's understanding of creation, anthropology, Christology, ecclesiology, liturgy, and eschatology.

Instead of the word "apotheosis", Christian theology uses in English the words "deification" or "divinization" or the Greek word "theosis".

This reading of Empedocles is highly suggestive of similar Orphic and Pythagorean views of incarnation, divinization, and death.

The cycle took the divinization of Psyche as the centerpiece of the ceiling, and was a vehicle for the Neoplatonism the queen brought with her from France.

Rather, the Finnish School asserts that Luther's doctrine of salvation was similar to that of Eastern Orthodoxy, theosis (divinization).

Apparently immutable factors such as gender would be left behind in the long process of divinisation, since in God there was neither male nor female.

This involves bringing down the Supramental consciousness to transform the entire being, and ultimately to the divinisation of the material world.

We can see the religious impulse behind this startling divinisation of Jesus by looking briefly at some developments in India at about the same time.

Theosis closely links the ideas of justification and sanctification; salvation is achieved by the divinisation of man.

This would constitute a divinisation of matter itself or a realisation of its inherent primordial propensity, and usher in a completely new, 'divine' way of existing.

Her doctoral dissertation, La divinisation de Lao-tseu dans le taoisme des Han is regarded as a groundbreaking study in the field.

Gómez Dávila emphatically criticised the concept of the sovereignty of the people as an illegitimate divinisation of man and a rejection of the sovereignty of God.

Both describe a progression from inanimate matter through life and mind to a future consummation and Divinisation of humanity and the Earth as Supermind at Omega Point/God-Omega.

Bernadette Liou-Gille, "Divinisation des morts dans la Rome ancienne", in: Revue Belge de Philologie vol.

For Teilhard there is a further stage, one of spiritual evolution, the Christing of the collective noosphere, in which humanity converges in a single divinisation he calls the Omega Point.

The name may thus be comparable to the Vedic earth goddess "Prthvi" and the Greek place name Plataia, suggesting that Letavis is an earth goddess or divinisation of the landscape.

Thus, while Snorri's euhemerism follows the early Christian tradition, the effect is not simply to discredit the divinity of the gods of a religion on the wane, but also (on the model of Virgil's Aeneid) to hint that the 'divinisation' was done in order to legitimize more recent Scandinavian rulers.