THEOSIS: FUSION OF MAN/WOMAN AND GOD? (A PATRISTIC, ORTHODOX PERSPECTIVE)

Orthodoxy does not, like centring (prayer) for example, have to search for meditative techniques in Eastern religions or for contemplative techniques in the western Christian mystical way that begins with the stage of purification, continues to illumination and arrives at the unitive state of the soul with the Divine. The reason for this is not merely that Orthodoxy already has, or is, the way of hesychasm or the Jesus prayer, but that the entire theological framework of Orthodoxy expresses the belief in the idea of theosis or deification.https://www.amazon.com/dp/1475250231