The Doctrine of Theosis

Articles on this topic

• From the Hymns of the Church on Theosis (Deification)

  From the second piece of the Theotokia of Friday: He took our body, gave us His Holy Spirit, and made us one with Him.

• The Meaning of the Term “Theosis”

  Theosis is the process by which man is united to God from glory to glory. The righteous will be deified on the last day, but this process must begin now.

• From the Sayings of Contemporary Writers on the Doctrine of Theosis (Deification)

  Metropolitan Nicholas Antoniou: the goal of Orthodox doctrines is to lead us to life in the Father, by the presence of the living Christ in us, by the power of the Holy Spirit.

• From Church History on the Doctrine of Theosis (Deification)

  Fr. Dr. Athanasius Ishaq Hanin on the difference between Eastern patristic theology and the later theories of the West.

• From the Liturgy of the Church on the Doctrine of Theosis (Deification)

  From the Prayer of Reconciliation of the Liturgy of St. Gregory: You reconciled the earthly with the heavenly, and made the two one.

• From the Sayings of St. Athanasius the Apostolic on the Doctrine of Theosis (Deification)

  For the Word of God became man that He might deify us, and manifested Himself in a body that we might obtain knowledge of the unseen Father.

• From the Sayings of St. Basil the Great on the Doctrine of Theosis (Deification)

  St. Basil the Great: just as bright, transparent bodies become radiant when rays of light fall on them, so souls that bear the Spirit become spiritual.

• From the Bible on the Doctrine of Theosis (Deification)

  Jesus answered them: “Is it not written in your law, ‘I said, “You are gods”’?” (Gospel of John 10:34)