Theism is broadly defined as the belief in the existence of at least one deity. In common parlance, or when contrasted with deism, the term often describes...
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Antitheism (redirect from Anti-theism)
Antitheism, also spelled anti-theism, is the philosophical position that theism should be opposed. The term has had a range of applications. In secular...
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Classical theism is a theological and philosophical form of theism that conceives of God as the ultimate, transcendent reality, characterized by attributes...
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Open theism, also known as openness theology, is a theological movement that has developed within Christianity as a rejection of the synthesis of Greek...
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Agnostic theism, agnostotheism, or agnostitheism is the philosophical view that encompasses both theism and agnosticism. An agnostic theist believes in...
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Nontheism (redirect from Non-theism)
Nontheism or non-theism is a range of both religious and non-religious attitudes characterized by the absence of espoused belief in the existence of God...
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Panentheism (redirect from Pan-en-Theism)
philosophical thought is widely believed to have paved the way for open theism, a movement that tends to associate itself primarily with the Evangelical...
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God (redirect from Good Lord (theism))
often worshipped". Belief in the existence of at least one god is called theism. Conceptions of God vary considerably. Many notable theologians and philosophers...
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Pantheism (redirect from Pan-Theism)
mysticism may be compatible with pantheism but it may also be compatible with theism and other views. Pantheism has also been involved in animal worship especially...
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specifically the position that there are no deities. Atheism is contrasted with theism, which is the belief that at least one deity exists. Historically, evidence...
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In process theology, dipolar theism is the position that to conceive a perfect God, one must conceive him as embodying the "good" in sometimes-opposing...
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Philosophical theism is the belief that the Supreme Being exists (or must exist) independent of the teaching or revelation of any particular religion....
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Devil (redirect from Dark Lord (theism))
A devil is the mythical personification of evil as it is conceived in various cultures and religious traditions. It is seen as the objectification of a...
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Theocracy (redirect from State theism)
Theocracy is a form of autocracy or oligarchy in which one or more deities are recognized as supreme ruling authorities, giving divine guidance to human...
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Teleology (redirect from Scientific theism)
Teleology (from τέλος, telos, 'end', 'aim', or 'goal', and λόγος, logos, 'explanation' or 'reason') or finality is a branch of causality giving the reason...
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Creator in Buddhism (section Mahayana and theism)
Buddhas like Vairocana or Amitabha with certain forms of theism, such as pantheism and process theism. Damien Keown notes that in the Saṃyutta Nikāya, the...
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Post-theism is the belief that the belief in a God belongs to a previous stage of human development and, thus, a division of theism vs. atheism is obsolete...
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Process theology (redirect from Process Theism)
affect and be affected by temporal processes, contrary to the forms of theism that hold God to be in all respects non-temporal (eternal), unchanging (immutable)...
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Monism (redirect from Monistic Theism)
Part of a series on Theism Types of faith Agnosticism Apatheism Atheism Classical theism Deism Henotheism Ietsism Ignosticism Monotheism Monism Dualism...
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Skeptical theism is the view that people should remain skeptical of their ability to discern whether their perceptions about evil can be considered good...
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Religion in the United States (redirect from Theism in the United States)
swearing-in. The Pew Research Center has routinely conducted surveys surrounding theism, religion, and morality since 2002, asking: Which of the following statements...
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Existence of God (section Theism)
towards theism, while 19.86% stated they accept or lean towards atheism. Prominent contemporary philosophers of religion who defended theism include Alvin...
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Immanuel Hermann Fichte (redirect from Concrete theism)
God, and for his theory on this subject he proposed the term "concrete theism." His philosophy attempts to reconcile monism (Hegel) and individualism...
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African philosophy - Afrocentrism - Agential realism - Agnosticism - Agnostic theism - Ajātivāda - Ājīvika - Ajñana - Alexandrian school - Alexandrists - Ambedkarism...
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Three Essays on Religion (redirect from Three Essays on Religion: Nature, the Utility of religion, and Theism)
Three Essays on Religion: Nature, the Utility of Religion, and Theism is an 1874 book by the English philosopher John Stuart Mill, published posthumously...
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definition of agnostic. Smith rejects agnosticism as a third alternative to theism and atheism and promotes terms such as agnostic atheism (the view of those...
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Monotheism (redirect from MonoTheism)
monism, through pantheism and panentheism (alternatively called monistic theism by some scholars) to monotheism and even atheism. Hinduism cannot be said...
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William Luther Pierce (redirect from Cosmo-theism)
William Luther Pierce III (September 11, 1933 – July 23, 2002) was an American neo-Nazi, white supremacist, and far-right political activist. For more...
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Nature Red in Tooth and Claw (book) (redirect from Nature Red in Tooth and Claw: Theism and the Problem of Animal Suffering)
Nature Red in Tooth and Claw: Theism and the Problem of Animal Suffering is a 2008 book by Michael J. Murray, which explores animal suffering throughout...
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the literal existence of God. It often overlaps with nontheism and post-theism. There are different schools of thought among Christian atheists. Thomas...
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