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The purpose of this essay is to examine and explain the vision of the union between God and humanity propounded in Athanasius’ doctrnie of deification, and to argue that such union is not to be considered a static relationship or state of affair but a series of events facilitated by dynamic workings of the Holy Spirit. Athanasius thought that the incarnation took place to deify humanity since the Word made flesh assumes humanity and transforms it in the image of God. Believers enter into this reality by participating in the Holy Spirit. This essay argues that one of the best theological modes for this aspect of the working of the Holy Spirit is found in the pneumatology of empowerment advanced in Luke-Acts. The union between God and humanity is being achieved as the Holy Spirit moves in the various phases of believers’ lives from conversion to empowerment and finally to glorification.