Farrell, Thomas2019-12-122019-12-122019-12This version was not previously published.https://hdl.handle.net/11299/209134See the abstract above.I previously published my 2,700-word review essay "M. David Litwa's 2014 Book Iesus Deus and Walter J. Ong's Thought" at the University of Minnesota's digital conservancy. In my follow-up 3,600-word review essay "Operationally Defining and Explaining Deification for Americans Today," I discuss Litwa's 2012 and 2016 books about other ancients examples of deification. In addition, I discuss Harold Bloom's interpretation of what he refers to as Ralph Waldo Emerson's "self-deification." But more importantly, I also undertake the task of operationally defining and explaining deification for Americans today by drawing on Robert Moore's account of the archetypes of maturity in the human psyche.enSt. Paul, M. David Litwa, Harold Bloom, Ralph Waldo Emerson, St. Ignatius Loyola, Robert MooreScholarly Text or Essay