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MAKE DONATION WIKIPEDIA GIVE GIFT KNOWLEDGE FROM WIKIPEDIA FREE ENCYCLOPEDIA JUMP NAVIGATION SEARCH THIS ARTICLE ABOUT TERM CONTEXT MONOTHEISM HENOTHEISM DEITY MALE DEITY DETAILS POLYTHEISTIC USAGES OTHER USES DISAMBIGUATION PART SERIES -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- GENERAL CONCEPTIONS DEISM HENOTHEISM MONOTHEISM PANENTHEISM PANTHEISM MONOLATRISM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SPECIFIC CONCEPTIONS NAMES EXISTENCE GENDER CREATOR ARCHITECT DEMIURGE SUSTAINER LORD FATHER MONAD ONENESS SUPREME BEING PERSONAL UNITARIANISM DITHEISM TRINITY OMNISCIENCE OMNIPOTENCE OMNIPRESENCE ETERNITY OMNIBENEVOLENCE AYYAVAZHI ABRAHAMIC RELIGIONS BAHá'í FAITH CHRISTIANITY HINDUISM ISLAM JUDAISM SIKHISM BUDDHISM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- EXPERIENCE PRACTICES FAITH PRAYER BELIEF REVELATION FIDEISM GNOSIS METAPHYSICS MYSTICISM HERMETICISM ESOTERICISM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- RELATED TOPICS PHILOSOPHY RELIGION ONTOLOGY COMPLEX NEUROTHEOLOGY EUTHYPHRO DILEMMA PROBLEM EVIL PORTRAYAL POPULAR MEDIA -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- THIS VIEW TALK EDIT DEITY THEISTIC DEISTIC RELIGIONS OTHER BELIEF SYSTEMS REPRESENTING EITHER SOLE DEITY MONOTHEISM PRINCIPAL DEITY POLYTHEISM MOST OFTEN CONCEIVED SUPERNATURAL CREATOR OVERSEER UNIVERSE THEOLOGIANS HAVE ASCRIBED VARIETY ATTRIBUTES MANY DIFFERENT CONCEPTIONS MOST COMMON AMONG THESE INCLUDE OMNISCIENCE OMNIPOTENCE OMNIPRESENCE OMNIBENEVOLENCE PERFECT GOODNESS DIVINE SIMPLICITY ETERNAL NECESSARY EXISTENCE ALSO BEEN CONCEIVED BEING INCORPOREAL PERSONAL BEING SOURCE MORAL OBLIGATION GREATEST CONCEIVABLE EXISTENT THESE ATTRIBUTES WERE SUPPORTED VARYING DEGREES EARLY JEWISH CHRISTIAN MUSLIM THEOLOGIAN PHILOSOPHERS INCLUDING MAIMONIDES AUGUSTINE HIPPO AL-GHAZALI RESPECTIVELY MANY NOTABLE MEDIEVAL PHILOSOPHERS DEVELOPED ARGUMENTS EXISTENCE CONTENTS HIDE ETYMOLOGY USAGE NAMES CONCEPTIONS EXISTENCE THEOLOGICAL APPROACHES THEISM DEISM HISTORY MONOTHEISM MONOTHEISM PANTHEISM DYSTHEISM NONTHEISM SCIENTIFIC POSITIONS REGARDING ANTHROPOMORPHISM DISTRIBUTION BELIEF REFERENCES NOTES EXTERNAL LINKS ETYMOLOGY USAGE MAIN ARTICLE WORD EARLIEST WRITTEN FORM GERMANIC WORD COMES FROM CENTURY CHRISTIAN CODEX ARGENTEUS ENGLISH WORD ITSELF DERIVED FROM PROTO-GERMANIC MOST LINGUISTS AGREE THAT RECONSTRUCTED PROTO-INDO-EUROPEAN FORM HU-Tó-M BASED ROOT WHICH MEANT EITHER CALL INVOKE GERMANIC WORDS WERE ORIGINALLY NEUTER—APPLYING BOTH GENDERS—BUT DURING PROCESS CHRISTIANIZATION GERMANIC PEOPLES FROM THEIR INDIGENOUS GERMANIC PAGANISM WORD BECAME MASCULINE SYNTACTIC FORM CAPITALIZED FORM FIRST USED WULFILA'S GOTHIC TRANSLATION TESTAMENT REPRESENT GREEK THEOS ENGLISH LANGUAGE CAPITALIZATION CONTINUES REPRESENT DISTINCTION BETWEEN MONOTHEISTIC GODS POLYTHEISM SPITE SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCES BETWEEN RELIGIONS SUCH CHRISTIANITY ISLAM HINDUISM BAHá'í FAITH JUDAISM TERM REMAINS ENGLISH TRANSLATION COMMON NAME SIGNIFY RELATED SIMILAR MONOTHEISTIC DEITIES SUCH EARLY MONOTHEISM AKHENATEN ZOROASTRIANISM NAMES MAIN ARTICLE NAMES CONCEPTIONS VARY WIDELY WORD ENGLISH—AND COUNTERPARTS OTHER LANGUAGES SUCH LATINATE DEUS GREEK SLAVIC SANSKRIT ISHVARA ARABIC ALLAH—ARE NORMALLY USED CONCEPTIONS SAME HOLDS HEBREW JUDAISM ALSO GIVEN PROPER NAME TETRAGRAMMATON USUALLY RECONSTRUCTED YAHWEH YHWH BELIEVED MARK RELIGION'S HENOTHEISTIC ORIGINS MANY TRANSLATIONS BIBLE WHEN WORD LORD CAPITALS SIGNIFIES THAT WORD REPRESENTS TETRAGRAMMATON ALSO GIVEN PROPER NAME MONOTHEISTIC CURRENTS HINDUISM WHICH EMPHASIZE PERSONAL NATURE WITH EARLY REFERENCES NAME KRISHNA-VASUDEVA BHAGAVATA LATER VISHNU HARI DIFFICULT DRAW LINE BETWEEN PROPER NAMES EPITHETA SUCH NAMES TITLES JESUS TESTAMENT NAMES QUR'AN VARIOUS LISTS THOUSAND NAMES HINDU GODS LIST TITLES NAMES KRISHNA VAISHNAVISM THROUGHOUT BIBLE THERE MANY NAMES THAT PORTRAY NATURE CHARACTER ELOHIM MEANS “STRONG ESPECIALLY USED GOD’S SOVEREIGNTY CREATIVE WORK MIGHTY WORK ISRAEL RELATION SOVEREIGNTY SHADDAI MEANS “GOD ALMIGHTY” ELYON MEANS “THE MOST HIGH GOD” STRESSES GOD’S STRENGTH SOVEREIGNTY SUPREMACY CONCEPTIONS MAIN ARTICLE CONCEPTIONS DETAIL SISTINE CHAPEL FRESCO CREATION MOON MICHELANGELO COMPLETED CONCEPTIONS VARY WIDELY THEOLOGIANS PHILOSOPHERS HAVE STUDIED COUNTLESS CONCEPTIONS SINCE DAWN CIVILIZATION ABRAHAMIC CONCEPTIONS INCLUDE TRINITARIAN VIEW CHRISTIANS KABBALISTIC DEFINITION JEWISH MYSTICISM ISLAMIC CONCEPT DHARMIC RELIGIONS DIFFER THEIR VIEW DIVINE VIEWS HINDUISM VARY REGION SECT CASTE RANGING FROM MONOTHEISTIC POLYTHEISTIC ATHEISTIC VIEW BUDDHISM ALMOST NON-THEIST MODERN TIMES SOME MORE ABSTRACT CONCEPTS HAVE BEEN DEVELOPED SUCH PROCESS THEOLOGY OPEN THEISM CONCEPTIONS HELD INDIVIDUAL BELIEVERS VARY WIDELY THAT THERE CLEAR CONSENSUS NATURE CONTEMPORANEOUS FRENCH PHILOSOPHER MICHEL HENRY HOWEVER PROPOSED PHENOMENOLOGICAL APPROACH DEFINITION PHENOMENOLOGICAL ESSENCE LIFE EXISTENCE MAIN ARTICLE EXISTENCE MANY ARGUMENTS WHICH ATTEMPT PROVE DISPROVE EXISTENCE HAVE BEEN PROPOSED PHILOSOPHERS THEOLOGIANS OTHER THINKERS MANY CENTURIES PHILOSOPHICAL TERMINOLOGY SUCH ARGUMENTS CONCERN SCHOOLS THOUGHT EPISTEMOLOGY ONTOLOGY THERE MANY PHILOSOPHICAL ISSUES CONCERNING EXISTENCE SOME DEFINITIONS SOMETIMES NONSPECIFIC WHILE OTHER DEFINITIONS SELF-CONTRADICTORY ARGUMENTS EXISTENCE TYPICALLY INCLUDE METAPHYSICAL EMPIRICAL INDUCTIVE SUBJECTIVE TYPES WHILE OTHERS REVOLVE AROUND HOLES EVOLUTIONARY THEORY ORDER COMPLEXITY WORLD ARGUMENTS AGAINST EXISTENCE TYPICALLY INCLUDE EMPIRICAL DEDUCTIVE INDUCTIVE TYPES CONCLUSIONS REACHED INCLUDE DOES EXIST STRONG ATHEISM ALMOST CERTAINLY DOES EXIST FACTO ATHEISM KNOWS WHETHER EXISTS AGNOSTICISM EXISTS THIS CANNOT PROVEN DISPROVEN THEISM EXISTS THIS PROVEN THEISM THERE NUMEROUS VARIATIONS THESE POSITIONS RECENT ARGUMENT EXISTENCE INTELLIGENT DESIGN WHICH ASSERTS THAT CERTAIN FEATURES UNIVERSE LIVING THINGS BEST EXPLAINED INTELLIGENT CAUSE UNDIRECTED PROCESS SUCH NATURAL SELECTION MODERN FORM TRADITIONAL ARGUMENT FROM DESIGN MODIFIED AVOID SPECIFYING NATURE IDENTITY DESIGNER PRIMARY PROPONENTS WHOM ASSOCIATED WITH DISCOVERY INSTITUTE BELIEVE DESIGNER ABRAHAMIC THEOLOGICAL APPROACHES MAIN ARTICLE THEOLOGY THEOLOGIANS PHILOSOPHERS HAVE ASCRIBED NUMBER ATTRIBUTES INCLUDING OMNISCIENCE OMNIPOTENCE OMNIPRESENCE PERFECT GOODNESS DIVINE SIMPLICITY ETERNAL NECESSARY EXISTENCE BEEN DESCRIBED INCORPOREAL PERSONAL BEING SOURCE MORAL OBLIGATION GREATEST CONCEIVABLE BEING EXISTENT THESE ATTRIBUTES WERE CLAIMED VARYING DEGREES EARLY JEWISH CHRISTIAN MUSLIM SCHOLARS INCLUDING AUGUSTINE AL-GHAZALI MAIMONIDES MANY MEDIEVAL PHILOSOPHERS DEVELOPED ARGUMENTS EXISTENCE WHILE ATTEMPTING COMPREHEND PRECISE IMPLICATIONS GOD'S ATTRIBUTES RECONCILING SOME THOSE ATTRIBUTES GENERATED IMPORTANT PHILOSOPHICAL PROBLEMS DEBATES EXAMPLE GOD'S OMNISCIENCE IMPLIES THAT KNOWS FREE AGENTS WILL CHOOSE DOES KNOW THIS THEIR APPARENT FREE WILL MIGHT ILLUSORY FOREKNOWLEDGE DOES IMPLY PREDESTINATION DOES KNOW OMNISCIENT LAST CENTURIES PHILOSOPHY HAVE SEEN VIGOROUS QUESTIONS REGARDING ARGUMENTS GOD'S EXISTENCE RAISED SUCH PHILOSOPHERS IMMANUEL KANT DAVID HUME ANTONY FLEW ALTHOUGH KANT HELD THAT ARGUMENT FROM MORALITY VALID THEIST RESPONSE BEEN EITHER CONTEND LIKE ALVIN PLANTINGA THAT FAITH PROPERLY BASIC TAKE LIKE RICHARD SWINBURNE EVIDENTIALIST POSITION SOME THEISTS AGREE THAT NONE ARGUMENTS GOD'S EXISTENCE COMPELLING ARGUE THAT FAITH PRODUCT REASON REQUIRES RISK THERE WOULD RISK THEY ARGUMENTS GOD'S EXISTENCE WERE SOLID LAWS LOGIC POSITION SUMMED PASCAL HEART REASONS WHICH REASON KNOWS MOST MAJOR RELIGIONS HOLD METAPHOR BEING THAT INFLUENCES DAY-TO-DAY EXISTENCES MANY BELIEVERS ALLOW EXISTENCE OTHER LESS POWERFUL SPIRITUAL BEINGS GIVE THEM NAMES SUCH ANGELS SAINTS DJINNI DEMONS DEVAS THEISM DEISM THEISM GENERALLY HOLDS THAT EXISTS REALISTICALLY OBJECTIVELY INDEPENDENTLY HUMAN THOUGHT THAT CREATED SUSTAINS EVERYTHING THAT OMNIPOTENT ETERNAL PERSONAL INTERACTING WITH UNIVERSE THROUGH EXAMPLE RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE PRAYERS HUMANS HOLDS THAT BOTH TRANSCENDENT IMMANENT THUS SIMULTANEOUSLY INFINITE SOME PRESENT AFFAIRS WORLD THEISTS SUBSCRIBE ABOVE PROPOSITIONS USUALLY FAIR NUMBER THEM FAMILY RESEMBLANCE CATHOLIC THEOLOGY HOLDS THAT INFINITELY SIMPLE INVOLUNTARILY SUBJECT TIME MOST THEISTS HOLD THAT OMNIPOTENT OMNISCIENT BENEVOLENT ALTHOUGH THIS BELIEF RAISES QUESTIONS ABOUT GOD'S RESPONSIBILITY EVIL SUFFERING WORLD SOME THEISTS ASCRIBE SELF-CONSCIOUS PURPOSEFUL LIMITING OMNIPOTENCE OMNISCIENCE BENEVOLENCE OPEN THEISM CONTRAST ASSERTS THAT NATURE TIME GOD'S OMNISCIENCE DOES MEAN DEITY PREDICT FUTURE THEISM SOMETIMES USED REFER GENERAL BELIEF GODS MONOTHEISM POLYTHEISM DEISM HOLDS THAT WHOLLY TRANSCENDENT EXISTS DOES INTERVENE WORLD BEYOND WHAT NECESSARY CREATE THIS VIEW ANTHROPOMORPHIC DOES LITERALLY ANSWER PRAYERS CAUSE MIRACLES OCCUR COMMON DEISM BELIEF THAT INTEREST HUMANITY EVEN AWARE HUMANITY PANDEISM PANENDEISM RESPECTIVELY COMBINE DEISM WITH PANTHEISTIC PANENTHEISTIC BELIEFS DISCUSSED BELOW HISTORY MONOTHEISM MAIN ARTICLE MONOTHEISM NAME WRITTEN ARABIC CALLIGRAPHY CENTURY OTTOMAN ARTIST OSMAN ISLAM CONSIDERED ANTHROPOMORPHIZE SOME WRITERS SUCH KAREN ARMSTRONG BELIEVE THAT CONCEPT MONOTHEISM SEES GRADUAL DEVELOPMENT NOTIONS HENOTHEISM MONOLATRISM ANCIENT NEAR EAST EACH CITY LOCAL PATRON DEITY SUCH SHAMASH LARSA FIRST CLAIMS GLOBAL SUPREMACY SPECIFIC DATE LATE BRONZE WITH AKHENATEN'S GREAT HYMN ATEN DEPENDING DATING ISSUES ZOROASTER'S GATHAS AHURA MAZDA CURRENTS MONISM MONOTHEISM EMERGE VEDIC INDIA SAME PERIOD WITH NASADIYA SUKTA PHILOSOPHICAL MONOTHEISM ASSOCIATED CONCEPT ABSOLUTE GOOD EVIL EMERGES CLASSICAL ANTIQUITY NOTABLY WITH PLATO EUTHYPHRO DILEMMA ELABORATED INTO IDEA NEOPLATONISM ACCORDING OXFORD COMPANION WORLD MYTHOLOGY LACK COHESION AMONG EARLY HEBREWS MADE MONOTHEISM EVEN MONOLATRY EXCLUSIVE WORSHIP AMONG MANY IMPOSSIBILITY EVEN THEN ARGUED THAT FIRM ESTABLISHMENT MONOTHEISM JUDAISM REQUIRED RABBINICAL TALMUDIC PROCESS FIRST CENTURY SIXTH CENTURY ISLAMIC THEOLOGY PERSON SPONTANEOUSLY DISCOVERS MONOTHEISM CALLED ORIGINAL BEING ABRAHAM AUSTRIAN ANTHROPOLOGIST WILHELM SCHMIDT POSTULATED URMONOTHEISMUS ORIGINAL PRIMITIVE MONOTHEISM THESIS WIDELY REJECTED COMPARATIVE RELIGION STILL OCCASIONALLY DEFENDED CREATIONIST CIRCLES MONOTHEISM PANTHEISM MONOTHEISTS HOLD THAT THERE ONLY CLAIM THAT TRUE WORSHIPED DIFFERENT RELIGIONS UNDER DIFFERENT NAMES VIEW THAT THEISTS ACTUALLY WORSHIP SAME WHETHER THEY KNOW ESPECIALLY EMPHASIZED HINDUISM SIKHISM ADHERENTS DIFFERENT RELIGIONS HOWEVER GENERALLY DISAGREE BEST WORSHIP WHAT GOD'S PLAN MANKIND THERE THERE DIFFERENT APPROACHES RECONCILING CONTRADICTORY CLAIMS MONOTHEISTIC RELIGIONS VIEW TAKEN EXCLUSIVISTS BELIEVE THEY CHOSEN PEOPLE HAVE EXCLUSIVE ACCESS ABSOLUTE TRUTH GENERALLY THROUGH REVELATION ENCOUNTER WITH DIVINE WHICH ADHERENTS OTHER RELIGIONS ANOTHER VIEW RELIGIOUS PLURALISM PLURALIST TYPICALLY BELIEVES THAT RELIGION RIGHT DOES DENY PARTIAL TRUTH OTHER RELIGIONS EXAMPLE PLURALIST VIEW CHRISTIANITY SUPERSESSIONISM BELIEF THAT ONE'S RELIGION FULFILLMENT PREVIOUS RELIGIONS THIRD APPROACH RELATIVISTIC INCLUSIVISM WHERE EVERYBODY SEEN EQUALLY RIGHT EXAMPLE CHRISTIANITY UNIVERSALISM DOCTRINE THAT SALVATION EVENTUALLY AVAILABLE EVERYONE FOURTH APPROACH SYNCRETISM MIXING DIFFERENT ELEMENTS FROM DIFFERENT RELIGIONS EXAMPLE SYNCRETISM MOVEMENT PANTHEISM HOLDS THAT UNIVERSE UNIVERSE WHEREAS PANENTHEISM HOLDS THAT CONTAINS IDENTICAL UNIVERSE DISTINCTIONS BETWEEN SUBTLE ALSO VIEW LIBERAL CATHOLIC CHURCH THEOSOPHY SOME VIEWS HINDUISM EXCEPT VAISHNAVISM WHICH BELIEVES PANENTHEISM SIKHISM SOME DIVISIONS BUDDHISM SOME DIVISIONS NEOPAGANISM TAOISM ALONG WITH MANY VARYING DENOMINATIONS INDIVIDUALS WITHIN DENOMINATIONS KABBALAH JEWISH MYSTICISM PAINTS PANTHEISTIC PANENTHEISTIC VIEW WHICH WIDE ACCEPTANCE HASIDIC JUDAISM PARTICULARLY FROM THEIR FOUNDER BAAL SHEM ONLY ADDITION JEWISH VIEW PERSONAL ORIGINAL PANTHEISTIC SENSE THAT DENIES LIMITS PERSONA DYSTHEISM NONTHEISM DYSTHEISM RELATED THEODICY FORM THEISM WHICH HOLDS THAT EITHER WHOLLY GOOD FULLY MALEVOLENT CONSEQUENCE PROBLEM EVIL SUCH EXAMPLE WOULD SATANISM DEVIL NONTHEISM HOLDS THAT UNIVERSE EXPLAINED WITHOUT REFERENCE SUPERNATURAL SUPERNATURAL BEING SOME NON-THEISTS AVOID CONCEPT WHILST ACCEPTING THAT SIGNIFICANT MANY OTHER NON-THEISTS UNDERSTAND SYMBOL HUMAN VALUES ASPIRATIONS MANY SCHOOLS BUDDHISM CONSIDERED NON-THEISTIC SCIENTIFIC POSITIONS REGARDING ALSO EVOLUTIONARY ORIGIN RELIGIONS EVOLUTIONARY PSYCHOLOGY RELIGION STEPHEN GOULD PROPOSED APPROACH DIVIDING WORLD PHILOSOPHY INTO WHAT CALLED NON-OVERLAPPING MAGISTERIA NOMA THIS VIEW QUESTIONS SUPERNATURAL SUCH THOSE RELATING EXISTENCE NATURE NON-EMPIRICAL PROPER DOMAIN THEOLOGY METHODS SCIENCE SHOULD THEN USED ANSWER EMPIRICAL QUESTION ABOUT NATURAL WORLD THEOLOGY SHOULD USED ANSWER QUESTIONS ABOUT ULTIMATE MEANING MORAL VALUE THIS VIEW PERCEIVED LACK EMPIRICAL FOOTPRINT FROM MAGISTERIUM SUPERNATURAL ONTO NATURAL EVENTS MAKES SCIENCE SOLE PLAYER NATURAL WORLD ANOTHER VIEW ADVANCED RICHARD DAWKINS THAT EXISTENCE EMPIRICAL QUESTION GROUNDS THAT UNIVERSE WITH WOULD COMPLETELY DIFFERENT KIND UNIVERSE FROM WITHOUT WOULD SCIENTIFIC DIFFERENCE CARL SAGAN ARGUED THAT DOCTRINE CREATOR UNIVERSE DIFFICULT PROVE DISPROVE THAT ONLY CONCEIVABLE SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY THAT COULD CHALLENGE WOULD INFINITELY UNIVERSE ANTHROPOMORPHISM ALSO ANTHROPOMORPHISM PASCAL BOYER ARGUES THAT WHILE THERE WIDE ARRAY SUPERNATURAL CONCEPTS FOUND AROUND WORLD GENERAL SUPERNATURAL BEINGS TEND BEHAVE MUCH LIKE PEOPLE CONSTRUCTION GODS SPIRITS LIKE PERSONS BEST KNOWN TRAITS RELIGION CITES EXAMPLES FROM GREEK MYTHOLOGY WHICH OPINION MORE LIKE MODERN SOAP OPERA THAN OTHER RELIGIOUS SYSTEMS BERTRAND CASTEL TIMOTHY JURGENSEN DEMONSTRATE THROUGH FORMALIZATION THAT BOYER'S EXPLANATORY MODEL MATCHES PHYSICS' EPISTEMOLOGY POSITING DIRECTLY OBSERVABLE ENTITIES INTERMEDIARIES ANTHROPOLOGIST 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