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Dipolar and theism
* Dipolar theism
Dipolar theism holds that in each pair, both of the characteristics contain some element of good.
Dipolar theism holds that a perfect God must embody the good in both of those characteristics.

Dipolar and has
It has recently been shown by Dipolar of Sweden to be possible to greatly extend the life of magnetrons to over 40, 000 hours making low cost plasma lamps possible.

theism and is
The doctrine of open theism states that God is omnipresent, omnipotent, and omniscient, but differs on the nature of the future.
The majority Arminian view accepts classical theismthe belief that God's power, knowledge, and presence have no external limitations, that is, outside of His divine nature.
The term thealogy is sometimes used in the context of the Neopagan Goddess movement, a pun on theology and thea θεά " goddess " intended to suggest a feminist approach to theism.
Monistic theism, which includes the concept of a personal god as a universal, omnipotent Supreme Being who is both immanent and transcendent, is prevalent within many other schools of Hinduism as well.
Nihilism is also a characteristic that has been ascribed to time periods: for example, Jean Baudrillard and others have called postmodernity a nihilistic epoch, and some Christian theologians and figures of religious authority have asserted that postmodernity and many aspects of modernity represent a rejection of theism, and that rejection of their theistic doctrine entails nihilism.
In Conservative and Reform Judaism, and some movements within Protestant Christianity, including process theology and open theism, deities are said to act in the world through persuasion, and not by coercion ( for open theism, this is a matter of choice — a deity could act miraculously, and perhaps on occasion does so — while for process theism it is a matter of necessity — creatures have inherent powers that a deity cannot, even in principle, override ).
This view is known as dipolar theism.
It is also possible to distinguish two types of pantheism, one being closer to theism and the other closer to atheism.
The term panentheism ( from Greek πᾶν ( pân ) " all "; ἐν ( en ) " in "; and θεός ( theós ) " God "; " all-in-God ") was formally coined in Germany in the 19th century in an attempt to offer a philosophical synthesis between traditional theism and pantheism, stating that God is substantially omnipresent in the physical universe but also exists " apart from " or " beyond " it as its Creator and Sustainer.
The most influential and dominant school of Indian philosophy, Advaita Vedanta, rejects theism and dualism by insisting that “ Brahman reality is without parts or attributes … one without a second .” Since, Brahman has no properties, contains no internal diversity and is identical with the whole reality it cannot be understood as God.
Many schools of Hindu thought espouse monistic theism, which is thought to be similar to a panentheistic viewpoint.
God's decision, on such a view, is an inventive experience, almost precisely equivalent to the unfolding process of historical events ( thinking like this can be found in modern process theology and open theism ).
For both Whitehead and Hartshorne, it is an essential attribute of God to be fully involved in and affected by temporal processes, an idea that conflicts with traditional forms of theism that hold God to be in all respects non-temporal ( eternal ), unchanging ( immutable ), and unaffected by the world ( impassible ).
Some religious groups argue that secular humanism — and, by association, secularism — have a religion-like legal status despite the separation of church and state, that secularism in government and in the schools constitutes state favoritism towards a particular religion ( namely, the denial of theism ), and a double standard is used in granting protections to these groups.
In the philosophy of religion, the problem of evil is the question of how to reconcile the existence of evil with that of a deity who is omnipotent, omniscient and omnibenevolent ( see theism ).
# The hypothesis of indifference, i. e., that if there are supernatural beings they are indifferent to gratuitous evils, is a better explanation for ( 1 ) than theism.

theism and idea
In theology, the dominant philosophical idea of each of these epochs results in pantheism, polytheism, theism.
His idea was to plant the Samaj in India, as the Hindu mode of realising universal theism, leaving the other races to realise that universal faith according to their traditional methods.

theism and God
Other views of God affirmed by members of the Conservative movement include Kabbalistic mysticism ; Hasidic panentheism ( neo-Hasidism, Jewish Renewal ); limited theism ( as in Harold Kushner's When Bad Things Happen to Good People ); and organic thinking in the fashion of Alfred North Whitehead and Charles Hartshorne, also known as process theology ( such as Rabbis Max Kaddushin, William E. Kaufman, or Bradley Shavit Artson ).
O ' Connor ( 2001, p19 ) writes that Hume " did not believe in the God of standard theism.
After providing reasons for his conversion to theism, Lewis goes over rival conceptions of God to Christianity.
A second strand of Kaplanian theology exists, which makes clear that God has ontological reality, a real and absolute existence independent of human beliefs, while rejecting classical theism and any belief in miracles.
* Jewish introductions to classical theism, limited theism and process theology can be found in A Question of Faith: An Atheist and a Rabbi Debate the Existence of God ( Northvale, NJ: Jason Aronson, 1994, ISBN 1-56821-089-2 ) and The Case for God ( St. Louis: Chalice Press, 1991, ISBN 0-8272-0458-2 ), both written by Rabbi William E. Kaufman.
Most philosophical debate has focused on the propositions stating that God cannot exist with, or would want to prevent, all evils ( premises 3 and 6 ), with defenders of theism arguing that God could very well exist with and allow evil in order to achieve a greater good.
The evidential version of the problem of evil ( also referred to as the probabilistic or inductive version ), seeks to show that the existence of evil, although logically consistent with the existence of God, counts against or lowers the probability of the truth of theism.
Commonly, they argue that any implied designer need not have the qualities commonly attributed to the God of classical theism.
Unlike Paley, Behe only attempts to prove the existence of an intelligent designer, rather than the God of classical theism.
Philo argues that even if the universe is indeed designed, it is unreasonable to justify the conclusion that the designer must be an omnipotent, omniscient, benevolent God-the God of classical theism.
In a more specific sense, theism is a doctrine concerning the nature of a monotheistic God and God's relationship to the universe.
As such theism describes the classical conception of God that is found in Christianity, Judaism, Islam and some forms of Hinduism.
The use of the word theism to indicate this classical form of monotheism began during the scientific revolution of the seventeenth century in order to distinguish it from the then-emerging deism which contended that God, though transcendent and supreme, did not intervene in the natural world and could be known rationally but not via revelation.

theism and has
Skeptical theism has also been characterized by some as a fallacious appeal to ignorance.
Open theism is a recent theological movement that has developed within evangelical and post-evangelical Protestant Christianity as a response to certain ideas that are related to the synthesis of Greek philosophy and Christian theology.
While it has an extensive list of philosophical and religious associations, the Bhagavad Gita is also seen as a cornerstone for Hindu Bhakti theism, especially within Vaishnavism.
" God of the gaps " argument has been traditionally advanced by scholarly Christians, was intended as a criticism against weak or tenuous faith, not as a statement against theism or belief in God.
The dilemma has had a major effect on the philosophical theism ( faith ) of the monotheistic religions, but in a modified form: " Is what is morally good commanded by God because it is morally good, or is it morally good because it is commanded by God?
Classical Judaeo-Christian theism, however, rejects such a view as inconsistent with God's omnipotence, which requires that all that there is, is God and what he has made.
Movements such as Open theism and Process theology have argued that the God of the Jews and non-Hellenized Christians was not changeless in every respect, while Process theology has gone so far as to deny the classical attribute of God's omnipotence.
However, the theism that is being transcended in Stoicism according to Tillich is not polytheism as in Jainism, but monotheism, pursuing an ideal of human courage which has emancipated itself from God.
Philosophical theism has parallels with the 18th century philosophical view called Deism.
The term, polydeism, has occasionally been used as a direct substitute for polytheism – a usage which does not consider certain distinctions which have arisen between the respective root words, deism and theism.
Antitheism has been adopted as a label by those who take the view that theism is dangerous or destructive.
He used it as a very general umbrella term for all opposition to his own form of theism, which he defined as the " belief that the heavens and the earth and all that they contain owe their existence and continuance to the wisdom and will of a supreme, self-existent, omnipotent, omniscient, righteous, and benevolent Being, who is distinct from, and independent of, what He has created.
In particular, he notes that it has been used as a subdivision of atheism, descriptive of the view that theism has been disproven, rather than as the more general term that Flint prefers.
This period has seen the rise of the New Atheism movement, a label that has been applied, sometimes pejoratively, to outspoken critics of theism.

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