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  • However, through intellectual contemplation (theoria, intellectus) and divine illumination (which is the receiving of a divine self-manifestation, theophania), humans may achieve unification (henosis) with God, and the select few will even undergo ˜deification™ (deificatio, theosis) which Eriugena interprets as complete identity with God.

    John Scottus Eriugena Moran, Dermot 2004

  • So the Father is said to be the henosis ex hou kai pros hon anagetai ta hexes.

    NPNF2-09. Hilary of Poitiers, John of Damascus 1898

  • Mopsuestia had preferred sunapheia to henosis; Andrew of Samosata saw no difference between them.

    NPNF2-08. Basil: Letters and Select Works 1895

  • To add on to moss and paisley henosis, I think that hip hop (or rap, or whatever it prefers to be called) has now entered its third generation of existence in

    MetaFilter 2010

  • Naturally, the crucial Christian assertion, that God is One, sets an absolute limit on the meaning of theosis: it is not possible for any created being to become (henosis of Greek Neoplatonic philosophy).

    Integrating Missionally - W. David Phillips 2008

  • Mormonism's believability problem is that its fantastical events are too recent. paisley henosis, I'm going to disagree slightly with the concept of creating a Xenu: On Ice performance.

    Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz 2008

  • Mormonism's believability problem is that its fantastical events are too recent. paisley henosis, I'm going to disagree slightly with the concept of creating a Xenu: On Ice performance.

    MetaFilter 2008

  • * henosis ex hou kai pros hon anagetai ta hexes: [1600] 1

    NPNF2-09. Hilary of Poitiers, John of Damascus 1898

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