* Dipolar theism, is the idea that God has both a changing aspect ( God's existence as a Living God ) and an unchanging aspect ( God's eternal essence ).

* Dipolar theism

Dipolar theism holds that in each pair, both of the characteristics contain some element of good.

Dipolar compounds are usually not classified as zwitterions.

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.

Dipolar coupling are distance dependent, and so they may be used to calculate interatomic distances in isotopically labeled molecules.

* Andrew, E. R., Bradbury, A. and Eades, R. G., " Removal of Dipolar Broadening of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectra of Solids by Specimen Rotation ," Nature 183, 1802, ( 1959 )

Classical theism holds that God possesses every possible perfection, including omniscience, omnipotence, and omnibenevolence.

In process theology dipolar theism is the position that in order to conceive a perfect God, one must conceive Him as embodying the " good " in sometimes-opposing characteristics, and therefore cannot be understood to embody only one set of characteristics.

The doctrine of open theism states that God is omnipresent, omnipotent, and omniscient, but differs on the nature of the future.

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.

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.

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 ).

* 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.

According to David Kahan of the University of Glasgow, in order to understand how beliefs are warranted, a justification must be found in the context of supernatural theism, as in Plantinga's epistemology.

Philosophical theism is the belief that God exists ( or must exist ) independent of the teaching or revelation of any particular religion.

Thus Koons concludes that the problem of theodicy ( explaining how God can be good despite the apparent contradiction presented in the problem of evil ) does not pose a challenge to all possible forms of theism ( i. e., that the problem of evil does not present a contradiction to someone who would believe that God exists but that he is not necessarily good ).

Berman's reading of Toland and Charles Blount attempts to show that Toland deliberately obscured his real atheism so as to avoid prosecution whilst attempting to subliminally influence unknowing readers, specifically by creating contradictions in his work which can only be resolved by reducing Toland's God to a pantheistic one, and realising that such a non-providential God is, for Blount, Toland and Colins, "... no God, or as good as no God ... In short, the God of theism is blictri for Toland ; only the determined material God of pantheism exists, and he ( or it ) is really no 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?

IHS, consistent with the American Humanist Association and the International Humanist and Ethical Union, understands humanism to be “ a progressive philosophy of life that, without theism and other supernatural beliefs, affirms our ability and responsibility to lead ethical lives of personal fulfillment that aspire to the greater good of humanity .”

The words deism and theism are both derived from words for god: the former from Latin deus, the latter from its Greek cognate theós ( θεός ).

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.

This is in contrast both with the move of theism to justify God's actions and the move of atheism to accuse God.

Nontheism is a term that covers a range of both religious and nonreligious attitudes characterized by the absence or rejection of theism or any belief in a personal god or gods.

These essays argued for a conciliation between Darwinian evolution and the tenets of theism, at a time when many on both sides perceived the two as mutually exclusive.

Apatheism describes the manner of acting towards a belief or lack of a belief in a deity ; so applies to both theism and atheism.

These essays argued for a conciliation between Darwinian evolution and the tenets of theism, at a time when many on both sides perceived the two as mutually exclusive.

Agnostic theism is the philosophical view that encompasses both theism and agnosticism.

" As thus used, it was a term which governed the problems of speculative theism rather than those connected with the historical origin, the evolution and the organization of religion.

They socialised with the Unitarian clergymen James Martineau and John James Taylor, and read their works as well as those of other Unitarian and liberal Anglican authors such as Francis William Newman whose Phases of faith described a spiritual journey from Calvinism to theism, all part of widespread and heated debate on the authority of Anglicanism.

They socialised with the Unitarian clergymen James Martineau and John James Taylor, and read their works as well as those of other Unitarian and liberal Anglican authors such as Francis William Newman whose Phases of faith described a spiritual journey from Calvinism to theism, all part of widespread and heated debate on the authority of Anglicanism.

Antitheism has been adopted as a label by those who take the view that theism is dangerous or destructive.