Conceptions of God

Conceptions of God in monotheistpantheist, and panentheist religions – or of the supreme deity in henotheistic religions – can extend to various levels of abstraction:

 

as a powerful, human-like, supernatural being, or as the deification of an esoteric, mystical or philosophical entity or category;

as the “Ultimate”, the summum bonum, the “Absolute Infinite”, the “Transcendent”, or Existence or Being itself;

 as the ground of being, the monistic substrate, that which we cannot understand; and so on.

 

The first recordings that survive of monotheistic conceptions of God, borne out of henotheism and (mostly in Eastern religionsmonism, are from the Hellenistic period. Of the many objects and entities that religions and other belief systems across the ages have labeled as divine, the one criterion they share is their acknowledgement as divine by a group or groups of human beings.

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Absolute

Absolute In Philosophy The Absolute in philosophy is the term used for the ultimate or most supreme being, usually conceived as either encompassing “the sum of all being, actual and potential”, or otherwise transcending the concept of “being” altogether. While the general concept of a supreme being has been present since...

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Unmoved Mover The unmoved mover (‘that which moves without being moved’) or prime mover is a concept advanced by Aristotle as a primary cause (or first uncaused cause) or “mover” of all the motion in the universe. As is implicit in the name, the unmoved mover moves other things, but is not itself moved by any prior action....

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Outline Of Conceptions Of God

Outline Of Conceptions Of God Here, we have collected all the articles about the outline of conceptions of God. Conceptions of God in monotheist, pantheist, and panentheist religions – or of the supreme deity in henotheistic religions – can extend to various levels of abstraction: as a powerful, human-like, supernatural being, or as the...

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