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In a religious context, transfiguration (from the Latin transfiguratio) refers to an experience of temporary divine radiance or light.[1] It is often viewed as a form of apotheosis, in which a human being assumes or reveals a divine or elevated nature. [2]
- ^ Matthew 17:1–8
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Hoffmann, R. Joseph (1984). Marcion, on the Restitution of Christianity: An Essay on the Development of Radical Paulinist Theology in the Second Century. Issue 46 of American Academy of Religion series, ISSN 0277-1071. Chico, California: Scholars Press. p. 137. ISBN 9780891306382. Retrieved 29 April 2022.
Marcion apparently saw the transfiguration as the apotheosis of the Unknown God [...].