* 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 a perfect God must embody the good in both of those characteristics.

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 theology, the dominant philosophical idea of each of these epochs results in pantheism, polytheism, theism.

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.

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.

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.

Sympathetic to theism but skeptical of traditional religious and theological dogma, he did not regard his Absolute as having the characteristics of a personal God but nevertheless maintained that it was a proper subject of ( rational ) religious inquiry and even devotion.

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.

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.

" There are also some Arminians, like Roger Olson, who believe Open theism to be an alternative view that a Christian can have.

Hindu views are broad and range from monism, through pantheism and panentheism ( alternatively called monistic theism by some scholars ) to monotheism and even atheism.

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 ).

Skeptical theism has also been characterized by some as a fallacious appeal to ignorance.

As such theism describes the classical conception of God that is found in Christianity, Judaism, Islam and some forms of Hinduism.

* nOFuTuRe A blog exploring some of the positive, practical implications of open theism

This connection between the truth-value of theism and its positive epistemic status suggests to some that the goal of showing theistic belief to be externally rational or warranted requires reasons for supposing that theism is true ( Sudduth, 2000 ).

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.

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

Joseph Dongell stated that " open theism actually moves beyond classical Arminianism towards process theology.

The majority Arminian view accepts classical theism – the belief that God's power, knowledge, and presence have no external limitations, that is, outside of His divine nature.

Witnessing sectarianism and strife in 19th century Scotland regarding religion and philosophy, Carnegie kept his distance from organized religion and theism.

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.

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.

In the more recent material competing magical outlooks, such as theism, shamanism and mysticism, exist to explain the world.

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.

Any other approach Rand termed " the primacy of consciousness ", including any variant of metaphysical subjectivism or theism.

This view is known as dipolar theism.

* Philosophy of Religion. Info Introductory articles on philosophical arguments for and against 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.

Process theological thinkers are generally regarded in the West as unorthodox, but process philosophical thought paved the way for open theism, which sits more comfortably in the Evangelical Christian camp.

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.