The central idea of the Eastern Orthodox tradition is the divinization and transfiguration of all things.

The central idea of the Eastern Orthodox fathers was that of theosis, the divinization of all creatures, the transfiguration of the world, the idea of the cosmos and not the idea of personal salvation . . . Only later Christian consciousness began to value the idea of hell more than the idea of the transfiguration and divinization of the world.  The kingdom of God is the transfiguration of the world . . .

Nicolas Berdyaev

Photo: A cottonwood tree - reflected in an irrigation ditch - is divinized in sunset light just across the street from my house near Fort Collins, CO; November 22, 2012