The monistic position, by contrast, is that the Cabinet plays an important role in proposing legislation and policy.

She argues that the Gospel stems from a monistic view of creation rather than the dualistic one central to Gnostic theology and also that the Gospel ’ s views of both Nature and an opposite nature are more similar to Jewish, Christian, and Stoic beliefs.

Guattari holds that traditional environmentalist perspectives obscure the complexity of the relationship between humans and their natural environment through its maintenance of the dualistic separation of human ( cultural ) and nonhuman ( natural ) systems ; he envisions ecosophy as a new field with a monistic and pluralistic approach to such study.

The Hindu Tantras total ninety-two scriptures, where sixty four are purely Abheda ( literally " without differentiation ", or monistic ), known as the Bhairava Tantras or Kashmir Śaivite Tantras, eighteen are Bhedābheda ( literally " with differentiation and without differentiation " or monistic cum dualistic ), known as the Rudra Tantras ), and ten are completely Bheda ( literally " differentiated " or dualistic ), known as the Tantras.

" Adherents of the monistic schools ( such as Advaita Vedanta ) worship multiple forms of God as emanations from the ultimately formless Brahman, whereas followers of the bhakti traditions may worship a particular form or Avatar of Vishnu, Shiva or Ganesha as the Supreme God ( Ishvara ) in the dualistic sense.

Unlike a great number of other gnostic systems, which are expressly dualist, Valentinus developed a system that was more monistic, albeit expressed in dualistic terms.

An important question is whether the relationship between the cabinet and parliament should be dualistic or monistic.

** Saiva Siddhanta, adheres to the teachings of Tirumular / Sundaranatha ( Nandinatha Sampradaya, the monistic school ) or of Meykandadeva ( Meykandar Sampradaya, the dualistic school )

Gnosticism is an imprecise label, covering monistic as well as dualistic conceptions.

So the dualistic views were contrasted by the monistic narration.

Adivasi beliefs vary by tribe, and are usually different from the historical Vedic religion, with its monistic underpinnings, Indo-European deities ( who are often cognates of ancient Iranian, Greek and Roman deities, e. g. Mitra / Mithra / Mithras ), lack of idol worship and lack of a concept of reincarnation.

Bradley saw reality as a monistic whole apprehended through " feeling ", a state in which there is no distinction between the perception and the thing perceived.

This monistic vision posits a unity between the individual and the world — i. e., between microcosm and macrocosm.

His outlook saw a monistic unity, transcending divisions between logic, metaphysics and ethics.

By nature, behavioural therapies are empirical ( data-driven ), contextual ( focused on the environment and context ), functional ( interested in the effect or consequence a behaviour ultimately has ), probabilistic ( viewing behaviour as statistically predictable ), monistic ( rejecting mind – body dualism and treating the person as a unit ), and relational ( analysing bidirectional interactions ).

More recently, Paul D. Feinberg, professor of biblical and systematic theology at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, also identified seven categories of pantheism: Hylozoistic ; Immanentistic ; Absolutistic monistic ; Relativistic monistic ; Acosmic ; Identity of opposites ; Neoplatonic or emanationistic.

This concept and the related concept of Brahman, the Vedantic monistic ideal, which was regarded as an ultimate ātman for all beings, were indispensable for mainstream Indian metaphysics, logic, and science ; for all apparent things there had to be an underlying and persistent reality, akin to a Platonic form.

He leaves aside the first ( of historic interest ), and the fourth ( due to the definitions of nirvana ), so that as exemplars of mystical experience he presents: ( a ) the Upanishadic " I am this All " which can be subdivided into ( i ) a theistic interpretaion or ( ii ) a monistic ; ( b ) the Yogic " unity " outside space and time, either ( i ) of the eternal monad of the mystic's own individual soul per the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali or ( ii ) of Brahman, the ground of the universe, per the advaita Vedanta of Sankara ; and, ( c ) the bhakti mysticism of love, per the commentary on the Bhagavad Gita by Ramanuja.

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the translation of the French term into " human creature " implies that the label " Christian " is a reminder of the humanity of the afflicted, in contrast to brute beasts.

In contrast to Judaism and many other traditions, he taught that there is a place for voluntary singleness in Christian service.

* This article only considers the mainstream Christian views, in contrast to, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Adventism, Early Christianity, Nontrinitarianism and others.

His famous Sermon on the Mount is considered by some Christian scholars to be the proclamation of the New Covenant ethics, in contrast to the Mosaic Covenant of Moses from Mount Sinai.

In contrast, most Christian denominations actively seek converts, following the Great Commission, and conversion to Christianity is generally a declaration of faith ( although some denominations view it specifically as adoption into a community of Christ, and orthodox Christian tradition views it as being a literal joining together of the members of Christ's body ).

While the Jewish Messiah is considered to be one of the things that precede creation, he is not considered to be divine nor is he considered to be Jesus, in sharp contrast to Christian belief.

The Old Testament is a Christian term for a collection of religious writings of ancient Israel that form the major and first section of Christian Bibles, in contrast to the Christian New Testament which deals explicitly with the 1st century Christianity.

By contrast, in modern discourse, the term supersessionism arises as a criticism of a ( perceived ) Christian belief in Jewish exclusion, not as a Christian articulation of their own understanding of the relation between the Christians and Jews.

Unitarianism is a Christian theological movement, named for its understanding of God as one person, in direct contrast to Trinitarianism which defines God as three persons coexisting consubstantially as one in being.

He writes that the Georgians were – in contrast to the other Christian pilgrims – allowed a free passage into the city, with their banners unfurled.

By contrast, the Dominican order, a teaching order founded by St Dominic in 1215, to propagate and defend Christian doctrine, placed more emphasis on the use of reason and made extensive use of the new Aristotelian sources derived from the East, and Moorish Spain.

In early Christian thought, the lack of joy was regarded as a willful refusal to enjoy the goodness of God and the world God created ; by contrast, apathy was considered a refusal to help others in time of need.

" ( The Christian virtue of love is sometimes called charity and at other times a Greek word agape is used to contrast the love for God and humankind from other types of love such as friendship or physical affection.

By contrast, the Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, and Oriental Orthodox Churches teach that the Scriptures are not the only infallible source of Christian doctrine.

In contrast, making positive statements about the nature of God, which occurs in most Western forms of Christian theology, is sometimes called cataphatic theology.

The Christian views of the time of Terah come from a passage in the New Testament at where Stephen said some things that contrast with Jewish Rabbinical views.

In contrast to his brother, King Haakon VII of Norway, and Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands, who went into exile during the Nazi occupation of their countries, Christian X remained in his capital throughout the occupation of Denmark, being to the Danish people a visible symbol of the national cause ( although it is important to note that Norway's King Haakon VII was forced to escape the invading Germans after refusing to accept a Nazi-friendly puppet regime ).

In contrast, Protestants believe that the Church has only spoken infallibly through the Scriptures since the time of the Apostles, and should not expect to be completely free of error at any time until the end of the world, and rather must remain continually vigilant to maintain a Biblical ( and therefore authoritative ) doctrine and faith, or else fall away from the Christian faith and become an enemy of the truth.

He used the words " virtue " and " prudence " to refer to glory-seeking and spirited excellence of character, in strong contrast to the traditional Christian uses of those terms, but more keeping with the original pre-Christian Greek and Roman concepts from which they derived.

In contrast to peoples in other areas, some local Inuit thought that the burial was more desired by the Christian representatives of the museum, and that the remains could have just as appropriately been kept in New York.

In contrast to a dualistic type of religious ground motive, Dooyeweerd suggested that the Christian's basic orientation to the world ought to be derived not from human speculation, but from God's revealed purposes: Creation, the Fall into sin, and Redemption in Christ.

The dualistic contrast between God and the world, between the finite and the infinite, appears in both Platonism and in Neo-Pythagorism.

This belief was in some ways similar to Gnostic Christian theology ; notably, both are dualistic, that is, they posit opposing gods, forces, or principles: one higher, spiritual, and " good ", and the other lower, material, and " evil " ( compare Manichaeism ), in contrast to the orthodox Christian view that " evil " has no independent existence, but is a privation or lack of " good ", a view shared by the eminent Jewish theologian Moses Maimonides.

Described as ' a monument to German ingenuity and might ', it is perhaps with some irony that the IG Farben building is used by Tourneur to illustrate this dualistic contrast ; it was here that many of the German ' tools of war ' were developed, including Zyklon B gas.