divinization
- a word derived from divinize.
Example Sentences
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The name Hestia embodies not the divinization of a concrete object, but the recognition of the divine person presiding over the object in question.
From Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV by Jastrow, Morris
And does not this apocatastasis, this humanization or divinization of all things, do away with matter?
From Tragic Sense Of Life by Flitch, J. E. Crawford (John Ernest Crawford)
And thus a dogmatic evolution would have been effected parallel to that of the divinization of Jesus, the Son, and his identification with the Word.
From Tragic Sense Of Life by Flitch, J. E. Crawford (John Ernest Crawford)
However this may be, the nominal divinization of kings seems not to have had any effect on the cultus.
From Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV by Jastrow, Morris
This sort of divinization is particularly prominent in Melanesia and parts of Polynesia; it exists also in Japan and in West Africa.
From Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV by Jastrow, Morris
