Divinization

Divinization or deification is the "making divine", the "deification" of an earthly entity, individual, group, or activity.

In Christian theology, divinization (or deification, or making divine, or theosis), the transforming effect of divine grace.^[1]

It may also refer to:

the Apotheosis of an individual
- Imperial cults, a monarch who is held in a special religious significance by his subjects, and serves as both head of state and a deity or head religious figure. This system of government combines theocracy with an absolute monarchy
  - Divine kingship
- Cult of personality, when an individual creates an idealized and heroic public image
- List of people who have been considered deities
Mystical union with the divine
- Divine filiation, a Christian concept of becoming a "child of God"
- Theophagy, the practice of eating the body of a god
the transformation and divinization of the entire world
- Omega Point, a term to describe a maximum level of complexity and consciousness
- Supramentalisation in Sri Aurobindo's evolutionary philosophy
The pagan Mystery Religions
- henosis, the word for "oneness," "union," or "unity" in classical Greek
- henology, the philosophical account or discourse on "The One" that appears most notably in the philosophy of Plotinus
- henotheism, the belief and worship of a single god while accepting the existence or possible existence of other deities

Notes and references

^ Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church (Oxford University Press 2005 ISBN 978-0-19-280290-3), article "deification"

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