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Theosis (Ancient Greek: θέωσις), or deification (deification may also refer to apotheosis, lit. "making divine"), is a transformative process whose aim is likeness to or union with God, as taught by the Eastern Catholic Churches and the Eastern Orthodox Church; the same concept is also found in the Latin Church of the Catholic Church, where it is termed "divinization".
Hutterite leader Peter Riedemann wrote, for example: This shall be the covenant that I will make with them. I will set my law within them and write it on their hearts, and all of them shall know me. Jeremiah 31:33 Hebrews 8:10 Through this knowledge, a person is led to God, is grafted into him, and becomes a fellow member of his nature and ...
Apotheosis of Venice (1585) by Paolo Veronese, a ceiling in the Doge's Palace The Apotheosis of Cornelis de Witt, with the Raid on Chatham in the Background.. Apotheosis (from Ancient Greek ἀποθέωσις (apothéōsis), from ἀποθεόω / ἀποθεῶ (apotheóō/apotheô) 'to deify'), also called divinization or deification (from Latin deificatio 'making divine'), is the ...
The By-paths of Bible Knowledge series was a collection of books connected with Bible study. History, geography, archaeology, and other topics related to the Bible were presented by various experts. [1] The series was published in London from 1883 by the Religious Tract Society. [2] [3]
According to Dooyeweerd, knowledge of God, as God wishes to reveal it, is pre-theoretical, immediate and intuitive, never theoretical in nature. [104] [105] The philosopher Leo Strauss considered that the Bible, for example, should be treated as pre-theoretical (everyday) rather than theoretical in what it contains. [106]
In the ancient skeptic philosophical tradition of Theodorus of Cyrene and the Cyrenaics, Euhemerus forged a new method of interpretation for the contemporary religious beliefs. Though his work is lost, the reputation of Euhemerus was that he believed that much of Greek mythology could be interpreted as natural or historical events subsequently ...
A scientist recently discovered a lost fragment of a manuscript representing one of the earliest translations of the Gospels.
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