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  2. Omniscience - Wikipedia

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    The topic of omniscience has been much debated in various Indian traditions, but no more so than by the Buddhists. After Dharmakirti's excursions into the subject of what constitutes a valid cognition, Śāntarakṣita and his student Kamalaśīla thoroughly investigated the subject in the Tattvasamgraha and its commentary the Panjika.

  3. Christianity and science - Wikipedia

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    Christian theology adapted to Aristotle's secular and humanistic natural philosophy. [58] By the Late Middle Ages, Aquinas's rationalism was being heatedly debated in the new universities. [59] William Ockham resolved the conflict by arguing that faith and reason should be pursued separately so that each could achieve its own end. [59]

  4. Attributes of God in Christianity - Wikipedia

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    Critics of Christian conceptions of God as all-good, all-knowing, and all-powerful cite the presence of evil in the world as evidence that it is impossible for all three attributes to be true; this apparent contradiction is known as the problem of evil.

  5. Theological determinism - Wikipedia

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    The concept of theological determinism has its origins within the Bible as well as within Christianity. A major theological dispute at the time of the sixteenth century would help to force a distinct division in ideas – with an argument between two eminent thinkers of the time, Desiderius Erasmus and Martin Luther, a leading Protestant Reformer.

  6. Christian Science - Wikipedia

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    Adherents are commonly known as Christian Scientists or students of Christian Science, and the church is sometimes informally known as the Christian Science church. It was founded in 1879 in New England by Mary Baker Eddy , who wrote the 1875 book Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures , which outlined the theology of Christian Science.

  7. Essence–energies distinction - Wikipedia

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    In Eastern Orthodox theology, there is a distinction between the essence and the energies of God.It was formulated by Gregory Palamas (1296–1359) as part of his defense of the Athonite monastic practice of Hesychasm [note 1] against the charge of heresy brought by the humanist scholar and theologian Barlaam of Calabria.

  8. God in Christianity - Wikipedia

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    In early Christianity, the concept of salvation was closely related to the invocation of the "Father, Son and Holy Spirit". [118] [119] Since the 1st century, Christians have called upon God with the name "Father, Son and Holy Spirit" in prayer, baptism, communion, exorcism, hymn-singing, preaching, confession, absolution and benediction.

  9. Free will in theology - Wikipedia

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    Jewish philosophy stresses that free will is a product of the intrinsic human soul, using the word neshama (from the Hebrew root n.sh.m. or .נ.ש.מ meaning "breath"), but the ability to make a free choice is through Yechida (from Hebrew word "yachid", יחיד, singular), the part of the soul that is united with God, [citation needed] the only being that is not hindered by or dependent on ...