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God Himself does not know what He is because He is not anything [i.e., "not any created thing"]. Literally God is not, because He transcends being. [80] When he says "He is not anything" and "God is not", Scotus does not mean that there is no God, but that God cannot be said to exist in the way that creation exists, i.e. that God is uncreated.
The opposite of Deus absconditus in Lutheran theology is the concept of Deus revelatus ("revealed God"). [4] In the Kingdom of France, the concept was important to the Jansenist movement, which included Blaise Pascal and Jean Racine.
'all' and Latin: deus meaning "god" in the sense of deism) is a term describing beliefs coherently incorporating or mixing logically reconcilable elements of pantheism (that "God", or a metaphysically equivalent creator deity, is identical to Nature) and classical deism (that the creator-god who designed the universe no longer exists in a ...
The traditional understanding of the difference between cardinal and theological virtues is that the latter are not fully accessible to humans in their natural state without assistance from God. [6] Thomas Aquinas believed that while the cardinal virtues could be formed through habitual practice, the theological virtues could only be practised ...
The opposite concept is eutheism, the belief that God exists and is wholly good. Eutheism and dystheism are straightforward Greek formations from eu-and dys-+ theism, paralleling atheism; δύσθεος in the sense of "godless, ungodly" appearing e.g. in Aeschylus (Agamemnon 1590).
The term theism derives from the Greek θεός [9] (theós) or theoi meaning 'god' or 'gods'. The term theism was first used by Ralph Cudworth (1617–1688). [ 10 ] In Cudworth's definition, they are "strictly and properly called Theists, who affirm that a perfectly conscious understanding being, or mind, existing of itself from eternity, was ...
The word monotheism was coined from the Greek μόνος (monos) [13] meaning "single" and θεός (theos) [14] meaning "god". [15] The term was coined by Henry More (1614–1687). [16] Monotheism is a complex and nuanced concept. The biblical authors had various ways of understanding God and the divine, shaped by their historical and cultural ...
The root of the word divinity is the Latin divus meaning of or belonging to a God ... and the God and Goddess are regarded as equal and opposite divine cosmic forces.