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Becoming god: Interpreting Pauline soteriology as deification

Currents in Biblical Research, 2023
In the past five decades, the doctrine of deification has experienced a renaissance within the Protestant West. While biblical scholars have exhibited greater reticence to ascribe explicitly deiform intentions to Scripture than their theologian ...
Michael M. C. Reardon
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Political Deification and Religious Populism in Modi’s India

Populism
The article explores the phenomenon of political deification within the framework of religious populism, focusing on the leadership of Narendra Modi in India. Drawing on discourse theory, religious studies, and critical media studies, the paper examines
Feeza Vasudeva
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Deification as the meaning of life

Proceedings of the Saratov Orthodox Theological Seminary, 2023
In the worldview system of any person, the question of the meaning of life is central. However, if for a non-Christian the truth that makes sense of life is something unknown and therefore the movement towards it comes from somewhere from the periphery ...
M. Orlov, Dmitry Maslov
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Deification in Nicholas Kabasilas and Reading The Life In Christ

Journal of Orthodox Christian Studies, 2023
:Scholarship on Nicholas Kabasilas has not fully explained the interplay between the sacraments and ethics in his approach to deification. This article will demonstrate the harmony between the two, showing how each informs and completes the other. First,
Daniel Stauffer
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About the character of deification of the Egyptian Queens of the New Kingdom

Vostok. Afro-aziatskie obshchestva: istoriia i sovremennost, 2023
      The article analyzes the character of deification of Queens of the New Kingdom on the basis of their official representation in Egyptian pictorial and textual evidence.
Vladimir A. Bolshakov
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Subverting Oppression: The Politics of Deification in Cho

Literary Voice
This paper examines the subversion of caste and patriarchal hierarchies in Cho Dharman’s Koogai, focusing on the deification of violated Dalit women. Through an analysis of the Homo Sacer status of Dalits, the paper discusses how Dharman reclaims the ...
Ujjwal Narayan Patowary
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The Social Ethics of Deification in Origen

Early Christianity
The concept of deification was a popular subject in early Christian discourse, especially among Greek authors. The classical biblical foundation for the Christian doctrine of deification is Ps 81(82):1, 6.
John Solheid
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Divinized Instruments and Divine Music: A Study in Occasional Deification

Journal of Near Eastern Studies, 2023
* This article was first presented virtually in a joint session of Cultic Personnel in the Biblical World and Hebrew Scriptures and Cognate Literature at the annual meeting of the Society for Biblical Literature in San Antonio in 2021, focused on music ...
Michael B. Hundley
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Prayer as Embodied Approach to Deification in Romans 8:1–17: An Interdisciplinary Approach Highlighting the Roles of the Holy Spirit and the Human Spirit

Journal of Spiritual Formation & Soul Care
The doctrine of deification has been experiencing a renaissance of interest in the Protestant West. However, it is not an exaggeration to say that, by and large, deification has been probed as an intellectual exercise.
Jacob Chengwei Feng
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Love, Glory, and Deification

Journal of Reformed Theology
Jonathan Edwards’s dissertation, The End of Creation, explored God’s goals in creating the world and acting thereafter. Using scriptural texts and a rich doctrine of divine beauty, Edwards argued that God is theocentric and motivated by his own glory ...
JohnFricis Ievins
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