ABSTRACT
Any writing concerned with theôsis, as is to be expected, focuses on the cultivation of virtues. But usually they are referred to as a totality; in becoming as much as humanly possible like their Creator, people equally participate in the Good, the Beautiful, and Love since these are attributes of God and expressions of his energies. This chapter will pay special attention to the role of Love in attaining deication. Participating in God’s energies can take the specic form of rational creatures helping one another through actions informed by this sentiment or ‘virtue’, and by their adoration of the Divinity; they are not only beneciaries of love, but in turn impart love. There is no substantial literature about the love-deication relationship; this chapter endeavours to compensate to some extent for this deciency.
