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divinization

divinization

9.9
A process of becoming like a god in religion or myth
  • noun
  • /ˌdɪvɪnɪˈzeɪʃən/
  • Formal
translation icon : divinización
  • In various religions, divinization represents the transformative process through which humans achieve a state of godlikeness.
  • self-divinization

Examples

  • Rahner takes three interrelated themes from the Eastern model: salvation as ontological rather than juridical, salvation as involving the divinization of humans and the whole creation, and the resurrection of Jesus as the beginning of this divinizing transfiguration.

    Academic text (2006)

  • Good theology can proclaim that this "divinization" is what is actually happening to us, but it is at a loss to explain how divinization comes about.

    Academic text (2007)

  • The question is not if divinization can be manifested in different ways, but if there are different objects of choice to choose between.

    Blog text (20)

  • The divinization of politics will certainly not foster the expansion of tolerance or the acceptance of compromise.

    Academic text (1996)

  • In traditional Christian theology, this is known as apotheosis, theosis, or divinization.

    Blog text (16)

  • Johnson sees mediation/intercession tied to motherhood and to the excessive divinization of Mary.

    Academic text (2005)

  • The Eastern Christian tradition of representing the life of the blessed dead as a state of divinization is another example of mystical sensibilities pressed far.

    Academic text (2006)

  • The eschatological mystery of our divinization, Congar emphasized, is inseparable from the mystery of the Church.

    Academic text (2001)

  • Here, precisely here, may be the most significant fork in the road where the West went one way, understanding the Christian mystery of salvation after the model of a legal transaction, and the East went another way, understanding the Christian mystery of salvation as theosis, divinization.

    Academic text (2007)

  • The image of the philosopher as a radically private being seems to represent an inhuman idealization or divinization of the philosophic life.

    Academic text (1999)

Synonyms

deification
vsdivinization
2 9.5

Treating a person or thing as if they were a god

is the process of becoming or being made godlike rather than mere praise
achieving godship
vsdivinization
  • Literature
9.9

The process of becoming a god and gaining god-like powers

is broader, including being made godlike as well as self attainment

Surface Forms

divinization singular
divinizations plural

Morphology

divinization = divinize (transparent) = divin + ize + ation

Formed by adding the productive noun-forming suffix '-ation' to the verb 'divinize', a regular and expected derivation.

Etymology

Divinization comes from divine, which goes back to the Latin divinus meaning 'god-like' or 'from a god'. So, divinization is the process of becoming or being made like a god, which explains the word's modern meaning.