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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Divinization"”.
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Losing the Cosmos: Arendt and Voegelin on the Origins of Modernity
… In this context, I examine the de- and re-divinization of society, Joachitic eschatology, and the concept of an eidos of history. Two conclusions are drawn from these accounts: i) Arendt’s account of doubt and Voegelin’s account of uncertainty form an argument for the metaphysical loss of …
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Becoming God, Becoming the Buddha: The Relation of Identity and Praxis in the Thought of Maximus the Confessor and Kūkai
My dissertation investigates the concept of ‘divinization’, or becoming like (or identical to) God or the Buddha in the thought of two early medieval monk-philosophers from radically different religious-philosophical traditions, Maximus the Confessor (580-662 CE) and Kukai (774-835 CE). I use this …
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Alexandria in the Shadow of the Hill Cumorah: A Comparative Historical Theology of the Early Christian and Mormon Doctrines of God
… and philosophical implications regarding the divinization of Christ within the context of monotheism.. At the end of chapters five through seven I include a succinct, comparative study of each father's doctrine with Mormon doctrine. This work will also address the major theological and …
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"Gods in human form?" : a study of the acclamations of divinity in the Acts of the Apostles.
… the related cult of benefactors to secure his divinization. Luke reports on Herod's death to criticize self-seeking imperial rule and benefaction. The denials of divinity by Peter (Acts 10) and Paul (Acts 14) serve an opposite function by legitimizing these figures as true philosophers. As with …
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Evolution Esotericized: Conceptual Blending and the Emergence of Secular, Therapeutic Salvation
… salvation, spiritualist and esoteric forms of divinization, psychotherapy, nineteenth-century biology, and Asian religions filtered through a Western lens—all informed by reference to the great chain of being metaphor. Though esotericized evolution owes something to each of these elements, it …
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Salvation and the Will: Human and Divine Cooperation in the Theologies of Martin Luther and Maximus the Confessor
The Lutheran tradition is arguably defined by the doctrine of justification by grace through faith, a view of salvation understood primarily—though not exclusively— as extrinsic and forensic in character. In contrast, the Eastern Orthodox tradition has been often characterized by the doctrine of …