What is deification? – Response to a question

Deification isthe attaining of likeness to God and union with Him so far as is possible(Dionysus the Aeropagite, EH 1. 3, PG 3. 376a). God, you see, wants to make you a god; not by nature, of course, like the One whom He begot but by His gift and by adoption(Augustine of Hippo,Sermon 166.4). Deification [...]