theopoiesis

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In Eastern Orthodoxy, Oriental Orthodoxy and Eastern Catholic theology, theosis (written also: theiosis, theopoiesis, theōsis; Greek:, or deification, or making divine) is salvation from unholiness by participation in the life of God.

Integrating Missionally - W. David Phillips 2008
“knowing” God in one's self, by assimilation, man becomes like God, theopoiesis or theosis, moving from homoiosis or praxis of virtue and purification to theoria or gnosis in an infinite mystical progression.

Dictionary of the History of Ideas CHARLES TRINKAUS 1968