according to Russell, is “fundamentally convergent.”6 The importance of deification comes in the context of the divine economy of salvation, with culmination in the incarnation of Christ, “To see Christ is to know what it means to be God.”7 It is not simply a reflection on the historical role of Christ in the salvation of humankind, as Christ’s soteriological presence in the process of the divine economy that impacts everyday human life. The process of the reconciliation and glorification that was