Existence and Deification: Essence and Comparative Analysis of Concepts

The article reveals the essence of the concepts of "existence" and "deification", and conducts a comparative analysis of these concepts. The aspects that unite existence and deification, and the aspects that separate them, are revealed. Attention is paid to the role of intentionality in determining the essence of the concepts under consideration, as well as their modes. It is concluded that existence and deification, in the sense of the true existence of man, are one and the same. However, in the atheistic understanding, existence is finite and does not go beyond the boundaries of created being, for this it needs transcendence, which, from a religious standpoint, is related to the phenomenon of deification of man. Thus, only transcending existence can be related to deification, and related to the Orthodox term "new man", while existence without a breakthrough to God (without transcendence) is the scope of action of only the "old man".