This paper reexamines the concept of theosis, deification, by placing Athanasius’s On the Incarnation and John Behr’s patristic Christology in dia-logue with Bernard Stiegler’s pharmacological view of technics. For Athana-sius, theosis primarily refers to the Incarnation of the Word of God, in which God became man, an initiative of God’s that enables us to be deified. Ex-panding on this, Behr connects the Incarnation with Christ’s sacrifice, argu-ing that human beings become “fully human” only by uttering our fiat to die and live in Christ in response to the Incarnation and the sacrifice of Christ on the Cross.
The study contrasts this patristic vision with contemporary technologi-cal attitudes, influenced by transhumanism, that often treat finitude as a de-fect to be eradicated. While transhumanism seeks artificial transcendence, this paper finds that the account of technics in the Greek myth counterintui-tively requires a sense of shame (aidos) and, according to Stiegler, a sense of finitude. This paper argues that the awareness of human finitude is the es-sential threshold for genuine deification, both from a patristic view and as a constitutive element of being human within modern philosophical frame-works of technics.