The Dominican Push

🌟 NEW RELEASE 🌟 The Eucharist is no mere symbol. It is the key to life. More specifically, it is the key to your very identity! In this book, Father Gregory Pine shows that Christ, through the Sacrament, divinizes us in our whole being. See it here 👉🏼 https://t.co/bJg6rkdW75 pic.twitter.com/k1mZ4SfTcg

— Ignatius Press (@IgnatiusPress) August 13, 2025

Economic Trinity With Respect to Deification

Great to see a copy of the Oxford Handbook of Deification (an excellent collection) in the hands of the Holy Father, presented by one of the editors, Paul Gavrilyuk. @OUPAcademic @OUPReligion @Pontifex @Pontifex_ln @OU_TheoReligion pic.twitter.com/rrwO7R4Kpr

— Andrew Davison (@AP_Davison) June 9, 2025

Latin Take on Deification

This is it. Whatever deification means, sacred scripture, the theological tradition, and the witness of the mystics are clear: we are oned with Christ's humanity and thereby participate in His own hypostatic union. https://t.co/lJbEZ8fani

— Taylor Patrick O'Neill (@thomaesplendor) July 2, 2022

Garrigou-Lagrange Account of Deification

Garrigou on how, by revelation, man is conformed to God, not God to man. When revealing, God remains the origin, measure, and end of his revelation.

"God demands that we grow. When he reveals himself to us, he seeks, in a way, to divinize us and not to be annihilated within us."

— Fr. Aquinas Guilbeau, OP (@FrAquinasOP) August 24, 2021

Agree or Disagree?

And thus the angels were astonished (as the Greek Fathers insisted) to see this unexpected kinship between the eternity of God and the ‘it has happened’ of time and of the flesh. They do not possess thus kinship. And this is why deified humanity is raised above them.

— john milbank (@johnmilbank3) August 12, 2021

Theosis

The spiritual reality is that we become like what we worship. God detests idols and false gods because we were not made to be as lifeless as they are. So the Lord became like us, the Lover like His beloved, so we may become like Him, the lovers like the Beloved.

— fah’Tim (@FrGrumbach) July 22, 2021

The Mission of the Church

“Our Church's mission is to infuse these God-human virtues and ascetic exertions into the people's way of living; to have their life and soul knit firm with the Christ-like God-human virtues. For therein lies salvation from the world...” -St. Justin Popovic pic.twitter.com/7siwKSZZxz

— Timothy Honeycutt (@AudioScribeOW) April 3, 2021

Interview with Jared Ortiz

“Deification is not an exotic doctrine,” says Jared Ortiz, “but one found from start to finish in pretty much every major Christian thinker, east and west. The problem is we do not know our own traditions and have bought into a false narrative about them.”https://t.co/K2beJ4tXxj

— Catholic World Report (@cworldreport) March 26, 2021

CWR

Pre-Lenten Retreat with Fr. Khaled Anatolios

Mark your calendars! Upcoming Lenten retreat here @Sheptytsky @uStMikes with Fr Khaled Anatolios of @NotreDame pic.twitter.com/tyFXRgzwfK

— Sheptytsky Institute (@Sheptytsky) January 15, 2021

Franciscan Simplicity

Just the other day he posted this:

This is the great meaning of #Christmas: God becomes man so that we can become children of God.

— Pope Francis (@Pontifex) January 10, 2021

It is striking that the Lord spent most of his time on Earth living an ordinary life, without standing out. It is a beautiful message that reveals the greatness of daily life, the importance in God's eyes of every gesture and moment of life, even the most simple.

— Pope Francis (@Pontifex) January 11, 2021

The "hidden life" or the daily life of Christ before His public ministry was nonetheless a manifestation of the glory of the Son of God. Daily life by itself is not "important to God"; what is important is that Christ redeemed it through His incarnation. It is not what we offer, but what God offers to us.

Fr. Cyril Horovun on Theosis

I suggest a new take on the issue of theosis in Eastern Christianity - a logical and scholastic one.https://t.co/hQ52pPninu

— Cyril Hovorun (@cyril_hovorun) November 21, 2020

I Love, Therefore I Am

This critical exposition of the theology of Saint Sophrony conveys the message that Christianity is not just an academic discipline but very reality, life itself. Available in print and eBook: https://t.co/Pvmmxnkqzg pic.twitter.com/oZM14HCEWK

— SVS Press (@SVSPress) October 16, 2020

Eastern Christian Books: Mystical Deification

Eastern Christian Books: Mystical Deification

Routledge: Mystical Doctrines of Deification: Case Studies in the Christian Tradition, eds., John Arblaster and Rob Faesen

An Endorsement of Participation in God

Well, folks, I just finished @AP_Davison’s truly excellent book on participation. It is comprehensive and clear and readable. I learned a great deal from it and so I have no doubt that it will be *the* major resource on the subject for the foreseeable future. pic.twitter.com/vIShgk5FHn

— Matthew Rothaus Moser (@M_Rothaus_Moser) May 28, 2020

Participation in God by Andrew Davison

Cambridge University Press

Participation in God: A Study in Christian Doctrine and Metaphysics sold out in a couple of months, and was out of print for two months. Happily, it's now available again. @CambridgeUP @CUPBookshop pic.twitter.com/PLihXduWiY

— Andrew Davison (@AP_Davison) December 14, 2019

A review by James Clark at FPR: Imagining Divine Participation

Related:
Church Times review by David Brown.

The CT review has this bit:

In a rare exception, Moltmann’s idea of God’s making space for the world is declared unchristian, whereas from that perspective it is surely Davison, not Moltmann, who radically diminishes the divine nature in not allowing that God could ever create anything radically different from his own nature. Equally, Moltmann would offer a quite different way of thinking about the inexplicable and evil.

What happened to God's being unable to create a square circle not contradicting his omnipotence?

Again, the doctrine of the Trinity is simply assumed throughout, and no attempt is made to engage with why Platonism might have thought its introduction unnecessarily complicating in the conception of everything as derived from one single source.

If course it is assumed, it's a book about Christian doctrine, and Davison would probably acknowledge that it is something that we cannot know or prove by reason alone but a truth that must be revealed to us by God Himself. One wonders about the author of the review...

Of course, Christianity had an answer in insisting on the introduction of the Trinity as revealed doctrine; but, again, except in his introductory section when discussing creation, Davison entirely fails to engage with the way in which our understanding of scripture has changed. St John’s Gospel is repeatedly quoted as though it gave us the historical mind of Jesus, but does it? And, if not, how easily can Aquinas’s account of the incarnate one survive? But what, even, of participation itself? It would seem odd to make the term foundational of all Christian thought if it is not found reflected somewhere in human experience. Yet Davison fails to discuss what might be meant by such experience.

The reviewer sounds like a liberal Protestant. What sort of Christian life is he living if he does not understand that Christians participate in the life of Christ?

Daria Spezzano, "The Burning Coal: Aquinas on the Eucharist, Eros, and Deification"

Theology and Sanctity

NRT: "Théologie et sainteté dans l’œuvre de Louis Bouyer" par Marie-David Weill

Deification of Man in Christianity

Deification of Man in Christianity by Marcelle Bartolo-Abela (his website?)
Apostolate of the Divine Heart (12 Mar 2014)
ISBN: 978-0615809465



Review in Catholic Medical Quarterly.
Available from Amazon.

Eastern Christian Books: Deification Through the Cross

Eastern Christian Books: Deification Through the Cross

Eerdmans: Deification through the Cross: An Eastern Christian Theology of Salvation by Khaled Anatolios

Anatolios uses the phrase “doxological contrition” to suggest that the truth of salvation is found both in Jesus’s perfect glorification of God and in his representative repentance for humanity’s sinful rejection of its original calling to participate in the life of the Holy Trinity.

I personally don't see the need to combine Byzantine and Latin views of soteriology in this way but apparently Anatolios does.

Andrew Hofer, OP: St. Thomas Aquinas on Divinisation