godlikeness

There is no 'godlikeness' without such bestowal, such 'imagining' into life.

Clark Lectures, Trinity College, Cambridge Grace, Necessity and Imagination: Catholic Philosophy and the Twentieth Century Artist Lecture 4: God and the Artist 2005

Originally, all of these acts were a form of spirituality—of godlikeness.

God is Not a Christian, Nor a Jew, Muslim, Hindu … Carlton Pearson 2010

Originally, all of these acts were a form of spirituality—of godlikeness.

God is Not a Christian, Nor a Jew, Muslim, Hindu … Carlton Pearson 2010

Originally, all of these acts were a form of spirituality—of godlikeness.

God is Not a Christian, Nor a Jew, Muslim, Hindu … Carlton Pearson 2010

Originally, all of these acts were a form of spirituality—of godlikeness.

God is Not a Christian, Nor a Jew, Muslim, Hindu … Carlton Pearson 2010

“He desired godlikeness,” Aquinas writes, “in this sense, that he placed his ultimate bliss in an objective to be obtained by the force of his own nature alone, rejecting supernatural bliss, which depends on the grace of God.”

The Angels and Us Mortimer J. Adler 1982

He said that a man could rise from his beastly nature, which he was born with and which he was basically, and fulfill, through exercising his mental power, his potential for omnipotent wisdom, or godlikeness.

Manchild in the Promised Land Claude Brown 1965

If we set out with that high ideal which would seem to be demanded as a characteristic of a great religious teacher, and certainly of one claiming to be a prophet of God, we ought to expect that his character would steadily improve in all purity, humanity, truthfulness, charity, and godlikeness.

Oriental Religions and Christianity A Course of Lectures Delivered on the Ely Foundation Before the Students of Union Theological Seminary, New York, 1891 Frank F. Ellinwood

The little cares rasp and fret and sting the manliness and the womanliness and the godlikeness out of us.

The Threshold Grace Percy C. Ainsworth

While in Plato there is the foreshadowing of the truth that the goal of moral endeavour lies in godlikeness, with Aristotle the goal is confined to this life and is conceived simply as the earthly well-being of the moral subject.

Christianity and Ethics A Handbook of Christian Ethics Archibald B. C. Alexander