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語源

Learned borrowing from Late Latin theōsis, from Koine Greek θέωσις (théōsis).

発音

• enPR: thē-ō′sĭs
• (英国発音) IPA: /θiːˈəʊ.sɪs/
• (米国発音) IPA: /θiˈoʊ.sɪs/
• 韻: -əʊsɪs

名詞

theosis (uncountable) (theology, chiefly Eastern Christianity)

1. (Christianity, theology) The likeness to or union with God; deification.
   • 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years, Viking Press, →ISBN, page 440:

     For him, theosis or deification was the destination for human salvation, whose attainment Adam’s sin in Eden had imperilled but not rendered impossible; […]

2. (Eastern Orthodoxy, Eastern Catholicism, mysticism) The process of attaining this state of union with God.

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