Becoming divine
Subtitle: an introduction to deification in Western culture
By: M. David Litwa
Publisher: Cascade Books
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Eugene, Oregon
Language: eng
Number of pages: 274
ISBN-13: 9781625641557
Subjects: Apotheosis; Deification (Christianity); Gods
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-259) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Enter deification; title: Merging with the Sun: the deification of Amenhotep III; title: The new Dionysus: divine assimilation in Greco-Roman ruler cult; title: "You have been born a god": deification in the Orphic gold tablets; title: "We are being transformed": Paul and the gospel of deification; title: "Immortalized in this very hour": deification in the "Mithras Liturgy"; title: "I have been born in mind!": deification in the Hermetic literature; title: "I have become identical with the divine": Plotinus on deification; title: "The flash of one tremulous glance": Augustine and deification; title: "I am the truth": the deification of Husayn ibn Mansur al-Hallaj; title: "God's being is my life": Meister Eckhart's birth in God; title: "Uncreated by grace": deification in Gregory Palamas; title: "By faith a human becomes God": Martin Luther on deification; title: "Then shall they be gods ...": the Mormon restoration of deification; title: "Rather be a god oneself!" Nietzsche and the joy of earthly godhood; title: The posthuman god; title: Conclusion.