General philosophy

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Pantheism

Philosophy; General philosophy

The view that everything is of an all-encompassing immanent God; or that the universe, or nature, and God are equivalent. More detailed definitions tend to emphasise the idea that natural law, ...

Panentheism

Philosophy; General philosophy

The theological position that God is immanent within the Universe, but also transcends it. It is distinguished from pantheism, which holds that God is synonymous with the material universe. In ...

Philosophical theism

Philosophy; General philosophy

The belief that God exists (or must exist), independent of the teaching or revelation of any particular religion. Some philosophical theists are persuaded of God's existence by philosophical ...

Transtheism

Philosophy; General philosophy

Assumes the existence of God as an absent deity and the ultimate concept of God's existence is transcendent and external to all other forms of existence, which implies an impersonal, ...

Henotheism

Philosophy; General philosophy

Devotion to a single god while accepting the existence of other gods. Coined by Max Müller, according to whom it is "monotheism in principle and a polytheism in fact". Variations on the term have ...

Substance monotheism

Philosophy; General philosophy

Found e.g. in some indigenous African religions, holds that the many gods are different forms of a single underlying substance, and that this underlying substance is God. This view has some ...