Theōsis in the West and in the Catechism of the Catholic Church

This weekend I will be presenting a paper at the Fellowship of Catholic Scholars in Pittsburgh, entitled, "Temple Liturgy, Eschatology, and Theōsis: The Jewish Context of Paul's Teaching on the Eucharist in 1 Corinthians 11".

Suffice it to say, I'm very excited about the paper.

One of the things that struck me in preparing it was the statement on what the fathers called theōsis in paragraph 460