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Deification
See Theosis — the English academic term for the same reality: genuine participation in the divine nature.
Deification is the English translation of theosis, preferred in academic contexts. The term captures what theosis means: not merely moral improvement but ontological transformation — the human person genuinely becoming a 'partaker of the divine nature' (2 Peter 1:4). Through God's self-communication in his uncreated energies, the deified person is genuinely 'made divine' — sharing in God's life, light, love, and immortality.