![]() ![]() in That Hideous Strength with a brief reference to Weston’s attempt in Out of the Silent Planet. Then we will assess the attempts at auto-deification attempted by the group known as the N.I.C.E. We will thus first compare the temptations proffered by Weston to the Eve of Perelandra with the Genesis account of the Fall. Lewis’s Space Trilogy provides excellent examples of humanity’s desire to be God, and will prove an interesting and helpful interlocutor for understanding auto-deification. In order to understand both the Christian notion of deification and human attempts at auto-deification, we will look primarily, but not exclusively, at the Church Fathers and C. ![]() Looking at the human desire to be God will also provide a brief opportunity for discussion concerning what a human is and why the desire to be God is inherent to humans. We will show how this desire is actually inherent to humans, but that it can be easily misapplied. We begin by examining the human desire to be God. This paper seeks to show that human attempts at auto-deification are fruitless when compared with Christian notion of deification. ![]()
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