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deification
(redirected from Divinization)

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the Judeo-Christian culture has denied the divinization of the State.
To speak of divinization, of becoming not just sanctified but deified, seems utterly alien to the Lutheran way.
While conceding that some Christians have wrongly despised the body, the pope shows why Christianity "in no way rejected eros as such; rather, it declared war on a warped and destructive form of it, because this counterfeit divinization of eros actually strips it of its dignity and dehumanizes it.
 
 
 
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