| In the West, theosis became widely known through its hesychast teaching by Gregory Palamas and interpreted by the above-mentioned modern Orthodox theologians. |
| The concept of theosis developed in the Neo-Platonic thought-world in which the Greek patristic theologians lived and thought. |
| This is quite different from a view of theosis wherein the divine agent divinizes, transforms, the human agent! |
| As the Orthodox advanced their theosis theology the Lutherans began to sense that very similar ideas were present in Luther's theology. |
| The Church teaches that everyone, being born in God's image, is called to theosis, fulfillment of the image in likeness to God. |
| The Church depends upon those saints who, by lives lived in imitation of Christ, achieving theosis, can serve as reliable witnesses to the Holy Spirit's guidance. |
