theosis

Borrowed from Latin theōsis, from Ancient Greek θέωσις (théōsis).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /θiːˈəʊ.sɪs/
• (US) IPA^(key): /θiˈoʊ.sɪs/
• Rhymes: -əʊsɪs

theosis (uncountable) (Christianity, chiefly Eastern Orthodoxy, theology)

1. 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. The process of attaining this state.

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