unseen Father; and He endured the insolence of men that we might inherit immortality.”15 We must emphasize here that Orthodox theology insists that this doctrine does not blur the clear distinction between the Creator and the human creature. We do not become God as he exists in his own essence; we only participate in the energy or activity of God. At the same time, the formulation of Athanasius—“he was made man that we might be made God”—does make us sit up and take notice. What does “divinization”