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The Deifications of Ino in Ovid’s Fasti and Metamorphoses

Eugesta
In both the Metamorphoses and Fasti Ovid narrates the deification of Ino and her son Melicertes. In the Metamorphoses they become the Greek deities Leucothoe and Palaemon, while in the Fasti they also are identified with the Roman gods Mater ...
K. Sara Myers
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Strategie di potere e culto divino: la divinizzazione di Antinoo nell’Impero Romano [PDF]

Papireto
This study examines the death and subsequent deification of Antinous (110-130 AD) within the political, religious and cultural context of the Roman Empire under Hadrian (76-138 AD).
Alessandra Randazzo
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God Making in China

Temenos, 2022
Some religious leaders tend to gravitate towards claims of increasingly greater holiness. This sometimes results in the assumption of explicitly prophetic roles or in more extreme cases, claims of divinity.
James R. Lewis, Magrethe Løøv
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Holy Desire or Wholly Hubris? Deification in the Theology of Hans Urs von Balthasar

Religions
The theology of deification in the Christian tradition is fraught with misconceptions. Although it embodies the core teaching of the faith, it is not only a neglected theme of theology, but often critiqued as a Promethean distortion of the gospel and/or ...
Sigurd Lefsrud
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Обожење – циљ васпитања и образовања у Србљаку

Godišnjak, 2018
The deification, as a reality of ecclesial life, becomes the realized pedagogy of the Church in the experience of sacramental unity with Christ. The activity of the Holy Spirit in the Church always leads toward Christ.
Vladimir Stupar
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Magic, metallurgy and embodied powers

Primitive Tider, 2023
Magic, metallurgy and embodied powers Nordic folklore, empowerment and deification in material ...
Terje Oestigaard
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Radical, Baptist Eschatology: The Eschatological Vision of Vavasor Powell, Hanserd Knollys, and Benjamin Keach

Perichoresis: The Theological Journal of Emanuel University, 2019
Amidst the politically-charged climate of seventeenth-century England, a small, but influential makeshift group of Baptist divines developed an eschatological system that both encouraged their congregations to greater holiness and threatened the very ...
Arnold Jonathan
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Theosis and Martyria—The Spiritual Process of Deification and Its Implication for the Mission of the Church

Religions, 2022
This article analyses the role of the spiritual path of theosis in the mission of the Eastern Orthodox church. It evaluates the main directions in which the church could have a fundamental role in the world, such as peace, human dignity or the ecological
Cristian Sebastian Sonea
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Becoming God in Life and Nature: Watchman Nee and Witness Lee on Sanctification, Union with Christ, and Deification

Religions
This article examines the theological trajectories of Watchman Nee (1903–1972) and Witness Lee (1905–1997) on sanctification, union with Christ, and deification, situating their contributions within recent reappraisals of the doctrine of theosis in the ...
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Deificational Hermeneutics as Theological Interpretation: A Theological Exegesis on 2 Peter 1:1–11

Religions
This paper explores the parallel emergence of two theological movements that share ecumenical insights: Theological Interpretation of Scripture (TIS) and deification.
Jacob Chengwei Feng
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