“For He was made man that we might be made God”

For He was made man that we might be made God

Athanasius of Alexandria · On the Incarnation of the Word, and Against the Heathen · NPNF2 IV, On the Incarnation §54

The sentence the whole treatise exists to reach, and the plainest statement of deification in the Greek fathers. It is the argument of Nicaea put as an exchange: if the Word were a creature the trade would be worthless, so what is at stake in a word like homoousios is what a Christian may hope to become.