theosis

English

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Byzantine Greek θέωσις (théōsis).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /θiːˈəʊsɪs/

Noun

theosis (uncountable) (Christianity, chiefly Eastern Orthodoxy, theology)

1. The likeness to or union with God; deification.
   • 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 440:

     For him, theosis or deification was the destination for human salvation, whose attainment Adam's sin in Eden had imperilled but not rendered impossible [...].

2. The process of attaining this state.

Translations

likeness to or union with God

• Finnish: jumalallisuus (fi), teoosi
• French: théosis (fr) f
• German: Theosis f
• Greek: θέωση f (théosi)

  Ancient Greek: θέωσις f (théōsis)

• Hungarian: átistenülés, megistenülés (hu)
• Latin: deificātiō f, theōsis f
• Macedonian: обожување n (obožuvanje)

process

• Finnish: jumalallistuminen, teoosi
• Macedonian: обожување n (obožuvanje)

See also

• apotheosis
• deification

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