the line of Harnack’s thinking, categorizing theōsis with decline and with doctrinal hardening. At the opposite pole are theologians who build their entire theology upon a Christian concept of theōsis, including Vladimir Lossky,22 Panayiotis Nellas,23 and C. Stavropoulos,24 who create the impression that there is nothing more important in Christian theology than deification, and, further, that Eastern Orthodoxy holds a “copyright” on it. Jean Daniélou exposes the anachronism of their approach, their