Definition of "theion"
theion
noun
uncountable
(archaic) the divine, especially a divine fire
Quotations
Heidegger's attempts to transform theology into "theiology" and thus to transform a thinking/speaking about God into a thinking/speaking of the divine (theion) point in this direction.
2000, Ilse Nina Bulhof, Laurens ten Kate, Flight of the Gods: Philosophical Perspectives on Negative Theology, page 50
What appeared here, at the center of the Pythagorean tradition in philosophy, is another view of psyche that seems to owe little or nothing to the pan-vitalism or pan-deism (see theion) that is the legacy of the Milesians.The impersonal 'divinity' (theion) has a longer history than the personal, god (theos).
1967, Francis E. Peters, Greek Philosophical Terms: A Historical Lexicon, page 169
This question inquires into the first cause and highest existent ground of beings. It is the question of the theion, a question that had already arisen at the beginning of metaphysics in Plato and Aristotle; that is to say, arisen from the essence of metaphysics. Because metaphysics, thinking the being as such, is approached by Being but thinks it on the basis of and with reference to beings, metaphysics must therefore say (legein) the theion in the sense of the highest existent ground.
1936, Martin Heidegger, Nietzsche