چکیده:
Given that Eckhart's theology has been considered apophatic theology, which emphasizes the unknowability of God and the transcendence of His existence from all contingent beings, the issue of human divinization seems impossible and unattainable from Eckhart's perspective. Therefore, the question arises: how does Eckhart believe in human divinization? What are his principles and foundations in this matter? Human divinization from Eckhart's perspective is based on his anthropological principles and foundations. This research investigates four anthropological components that Eckhart utilizes in this issue. These four components are: divine birth in the soul, the power of intellect, the similarity and identity between the essence of God and the essence of the soul, and the incomparable status of man. Based on these principles and foundations, Eckhart believes that humans possess the capacity and power to be elevated to the highest possible level and become godlike. In this research, using descriptive and analytical methods and referring to Eckhart's works, we attempt to clarify his anthropological principles and foundations regarding the possibility of human divinization.
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Keywords: Human, Divinization, Eckhart, Soul, God *PhD student in the Department of Philosophy and Islamic Wisdom, Imam Khomeini International University (RA), Qazvin.
Plato believes regarding the importance and necessity of divinization that the ultimate goal of man is to become like God, and that is considered the perfection of human happiness (Laertius, 2008, p.
Eckhart's answer is that because the human soul is the "only essential image" of God; meaning it is the only existence in which God can be born and take place.
As can be observed, Eckhart considers human godlikeness to be that all of a person's psychological and physical powers are manifestations of God, as if God is using this channel for His own activity and action, and man is merely the exhibitor of divine desires.
Thus, the divine birth in the soul, or human godlikeness, is that man reaches a stage where he is completely purified from creaturely determination and is annihilated in the nature and will of God; so that God may manifest in him and through him, without any hindrance, whatever He wishes to be.
It has become clear that the meaning of godlikeness according to Eckhart is that man reaches stages of transcendence and an ascending journey and existential elevation to a position where he can harmonize himself with God and become endowed with divine ethics and attributes.
Eckhart calls this radiance the "spark of the soul," through which the godlike human reaches the station of the individual existence of the Son. By attaining this station, he becomes harmonized with the divine life (Ibid, p.
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