"Deification" refers to the act of treating or elevating someone or something to a godly or divine status. It means considering or worshiping a person or object as a deity.
Sentences with «deification»
This is the danger of deification of reformers and revolutionary heroes. (religion-online.org)
Norman Russell's authoritative Doctrine of Deification in the Greek Patristic Tradition (OUP, 2004) shows that the Fathers never treated Jesus and human beings as Mormons do — that is, as the same kind of beings or of the same species, with Jesus having moved further along than the rest of us. (firstthings.com)
[16] It is a real deification which also perfects all that is good in man. (faith.org.uk)