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Localization of Foreign Religion: The Deification of Buddhism in Tang Dynasty

Lecture Notes in Education Psychology and Public Media
This paper explores the process of the deification of Buddhism in the Tang Dynasty, focusing on its localization in the Chinese context. It provides an analysis of the background and significance of this phenomena, examines the objectives and motivations
Zixuan Guo
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“You Adore a God Who Makes You Gods”: Augustine’s Doctrine of Deification

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Twentieth-century theologians advanced a consensus position that the doctrine of deification was alien to Augustine’s theology—even impossible to square with his other commitments—and that even if traces of the doctrine could be detected, they were, at ...
Michael M. C. Reardon
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Aspect of Medieval Ideological-Political Discourse (King Deification or Theosis?) in Georgian Historical Literature

Re–Imagining Literatures of The World: Global and Local, Mainstreams and Margins
Idea of the highest secular power equality with the divine has existed from the ancient time. King was regarded as a holy institute belonging to the divine sphere. Royal power was regarded as Lord’s anointed in Georgian reality. The idea of anointment
Ana Letodiani
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Mystical Doctrines of Deification

2018
The notion of the deification of the human person (theosis, theopoièsis, deificatio) was one of the most fundamental themes of Christian theology in its first centuries, especially in the Greek world. It is often assumed that this theme was exclusively developed in Eastern theology after the patristic period, and thus its presence in the theology of ...
Arblaster, John, Faesen, Rob
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Existence and Deification: Essence and Comparative Analysis of Concepts

Proceedings of the Saratov Orthodox Theological Seminary
The article reveals the essence of the concepts of "existence" and "deification", and conducts a comparative analysis of these concepts. The aspects that unite existence and deification, and the aspects that separate them, are revealed. Attention is paid
Alexei Maslov, Sergiy Postnov
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Augustine's Conception of Deification

The Journal of Theological Studies, 1986
Evolution de cette doctrine qui, chez Augustin, n'est pas au premier plan, mais qui est cependant une composante non negligeable de sa pensee| issue du neo-platonisme, la notion se trouve plus tard incorporee dans la reflexion theologique d ...
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Aquinas on Disability, Deification, and Beatitude

The Thomist
:This essay provides an approach to interpreting Thomas Aquinas on the topic of disability. That approach is brought to bear in a careful presentation of Aquinas’s speculation on the eschatological significance of bodily vulnerability, individuating ...
Miguel J. Romero
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Romans 8: A Discourse of Deification according to John Chrysostom

Journal of Early Christian History
In Pauline theology, Christ is the new Adam who annuls the effect of the Fall and grants humanity divine gifts. The centrality of Romans 8 in the New Testament and, more specifically, in the Pauline writings is unquestioned.
David-Ehab Elias
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The Deification of Time

1972
The thesis of this paper is that religion has stemmed from man’s consciousness of Time, and that his reaction to Time has found a variety of expression, including the deification of Time ...
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Typologies of Deification

International Journal of Systematic Theology, 2015
AbstractInvestigations into the Christian doctrine of deification have multiplied in recent years. Due especially to the emergence of studies on deification from the Western theological tradition, concerns are being raised about what constitutes a genuine doctrine of deification.
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