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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 ...
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 ...
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".
The Greek pantheon of gods included mortal-born heroes and heroines who were elevated to godhood through a process which the Greeks termed apotheosis. [1] Some of these received the privilege as a reward for their helpfulness to mankind example: Heracles, Asclepius and Aristaeus, others through marriage to gods, example: Ariadne, Tithonus and Psyche, and some by luck or pure chance example ...
The Apotheosis of Homer, by Archelaus of Priene. Marble relief, possibly of the 3rd century BC, now in the British Museum. The Apotheosis of Homer is a common scene in classical and neo-classical art, showing the poet Homer's apotheosis or elevation to divine status. Homer was the subject of a number of formal hero cults in classical antiquity.
Apotheosis, a sometimes-related mythological trope, in which the mortal subject becomes divine. Many katabatic figures (including Hercules, Dionysus, and Jesus Christ) also undergo apotheosis; Dying-and-rising god, a mythological trope in which a god dies and then returns from the Afterlife and/or is reborn, sometimes cyclically. Examples ...
Laozi was now capable of incarnating himself, almost like Buddhist bodhisattvas. Not long thereafter he joined the triad of the Three Pure Ones, and finally Laozi emerged as the chief divine person. We have here one of the more interesting examples of apotheosis, or deification, in the history of religion. [citation needed]
In ancient Greek religion and mythology a daimon was imagined to be a lesser deity or guiding spirit. [4] The word is derived from Proto-Indo-European daimon "provider, divider (of fortunes or destinies)," from the root *da-"to divide". [5] Daimons were possibly seen as the souls of men of the golden age, tutelary deities, or the forces of fate ...