According to Monistic views, such as those of stoicism and Spinoza, there is only one substance, often identified as God or Being.

Monistic idealism holds that consciousness, not matter, is the ground of all being.

* Neoplatonism is Monistic.

This Monistic Acosmism is the " Upper Level Unity ", as from this persective, only God exists.

In Hasidic thought, the kabbalistic scheme of Qliphoth is internalised in psychological experience as self-focus, opposite to holy Deveikut self-nullification, underlying its Panentheistic Monistic view of Qliphoth as the illusionary self-awareness of Creation.

In Hasidism, the Tzimtzum is only illusionary concealment of the Ohr Ein Sof, giving rise to Monistic Panentheism.

Oneness believers are often accused of being Monistic or Modalistic.

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.

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.

Many schools of Hindu thought espouse monistic theism, which is thought to be similar to a panentheistic viewpoint.

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.

" 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.

Several of these ideas within classical theism ( a designation which is not to be taken as inclusive of all of orthodox theism ) state that God is immutable, impassible

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.

They believe that “ The emergent ideology is a perversion of the Word of God and the doctrine of the Church of the Nazarene .” The group circulated a petition to members of the denomination, which was presented by 500 members to the Board of General Superintendents in January 2009, with the desire that “ Our fervent hope and prayer is that the General Superintendents will respond by purging our denomination of the emergent cancer before it is too late .” Prior to the most recent General Assembly held in July 2009, the Concerned Nazarenes advocated revising the Articles of Faith to affirm biblical inerrancy: “ Old and New Testaments are inerrant throughout and the supreme authority on everything the scriptures teach .” Further, they are concerned about the teaching of open theism and biological evolution in Nazarene universities ; invitations to emergent church leaders Brian McLaren, Leonard Sweet, and Doug Pagitt to speak at Nazarene institutions ; and the use of “ experiential works-based techniques for prayer ”, including prayer labyrinths, prayer stations and retreats to Roman Catholic monasteries.

O ' Hair founded an atheist radio program in which she criticized religion and theism, and a television show she hosted, American Atheist Forum, was carried on more than 140 cable television systems.

Recognizing that congregational religious life was thriving, Wine believed that secular Jews who had rejected theism would be attracted to an organization that provided all the same forms and activities as, for example, Reform temples, but which expressed a purely Secular Humanistic viewpoint.

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.

* Martin's page from infidels. org, which contains a number of his critiques of theism

Darwin declined, writing that " though I am a strong advocate for free thought on all subjects, yet it appears to me ( whether rightly or wrongly ) that direct arguments against Christianity & theism produce hardly any effect on the public ; & freedom of thought is best promoted by the gradual illumination of men ’ s minds, which follows from the advance of science.

During the 1920s, he led and participated in numerous theological discussions, disagreements and controversies regarding theism and the encroachment of humanism, which he opposed.

Given the meaninglessness of theistic claims, Ayer opined that there was " no logical ground for antagonism between religion and natural science ", as theism alone does not entail any propositions which the scientific method can falsify.

In modern times process theology, open theism and Christian panentheism have tried to look at God as the Being who is not only the Source and Ground of all being but also influenced by the people and processes of the world which he created and to which he belongs — rejecting or at least amending the classical medieval doctrine of impassibility .</ br >

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.

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.

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 dealing with theories which have nothing in common except that they are antagonistic to theism, it is necessary to have a general term to designate them.

It applies to all systems which are opposed to theism.

Maimon's concept of an infinite mind as the basis of all opposites was similar to the German idealistic attempt to rescue theism by positing an Absolute Mind or Spirit.

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.

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.

... Progressive Christianity is an approach to the Christian faith that is influenced by post-liberalism and postmodernism and: proclaims Jesus of Nazareth as Christ, Savior, and Lord ; emphasizes the Way and teachings of Jesus, not merely His person ; emphasizes God ’ s immanence not merely God ’ s transcendence ; leans toward panentheism rather than supernatural theism ; emphasizes salvation here and now instead of primarily in heaven later ; emphasizes being saved for robust, abundant / eternal life over being saved from hell ; emphasizes the social / communal aspects of salvation instead of merely the personal ; stresses social justice as integral to Christian discipleship ; takes the Bible seriously but not necessarily literally, embracing a more interpretive, metaphorical understanding ; emphasizes orthopraxy instead of orthodoxy ( right actions over right beliefs ); embraces reason as well as paradox and mystery — instead of blind allegiance to rigid doctrines and dogmas ; does not consider homosexuality to be sinful ; and does not claim that Christianity is the only valid or viable way to connect to God ( is non-exclusive ).

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 ).

The term theism derives from the Greek theos meaning " god ".

As such, it is generally manifested more as an opposition to belief in a god ( to theism per se ) than as opposition to gods themselves, making it more associated with antireligion, although Buddhism is generally considered to be a religion despite its status with respect to theism being more nebulous.

Agnostic theism could be interpreted as an admission that it is not possible to justify one's belief in a god sufficiently for it to be considered known.

His theism was unusual, in that he held god to be material.

In western theism, omnipresence is roughly described as the ability to be " present everywhere at the same time ", referring to an unbounded or universal presence.

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.

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

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 ).

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 it, he argues against God being omnipotent but as learning and developing as history progresses, a form of open theism.