Likeness to God
idea · 2 works · 2 mentions · 5 anchored passages
al-tashabbuh bi-al-ilāh · homoiosis theo · likeness to God · the likeness to God in His might
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Stromata
The Platonic-Christian ideal that the end of life is becoming like God through justice, holiness, and prudence.
and this he sets in the knowledge of the Good and in the being made like to God — declaring the likeness to be to become just and holy with prudence.
" The being made like to God, then, so far as was possible — to become just and holy with prudence — he lays down as the aim of faith, and as the end the restoration of the promise that is upon faith.
The man, then, who is to become dear to God must of necessity become, so far as possible, such a one himself.
al-Saʻādah fī falsafat al-akhlāq
Assimilation to God, named as the outcome of genuinely realized philosophy.
for the fruit of realizing it is the likeness to God in His might.