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Please research the article's assertions. Whatever is credible should be sourced, and what is not should be removed. </p> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Theism</b> at its most basic, is the belief in one or more <a href="/wiki/Gods" class="mw-redirect" title="Gods">gods</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1">[1]</a></sup> More modern definitions of theism suggest that the deity or deities in question must in some way impact the <a href="/wiki/Universe" title="Universe">universe</a>, separating theism from <a href="/wiki/Deism" title="Deism">deism</a>, which holds a God/god exists as the prime mover, but does not bother tampering with the world, if the God/god even were able. </p><p>The belief in god(s) can be broken into a host of subsections depending on the number and the kind of the gods being postulated. </p> <div id="toc" class="toc" role="navigation" aria-labelledby="mw-toc-heading"><input type="checkbox" role="button" id="toctogglecheckbox" class="toctogglecheckbox" style="display:none" /><div class="toctitle" lang="en" dir="ltr"><h2 id="mw-toc-heading">Contents</h2><span class="toctogglespan"><label class="toctogglelabel" for="toctogglecheckbox"></label></span></div> <ul> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1"><a href="#Monotheism"><span class="tocnumber">1</span> <span class="toctext">Monotheism</span></a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-2"><a href="#Personal_gods"><span class="tocnumber">1.1</span> <span class="toctext">Personal gods</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-3"><a href="#Impersonal_gods"><span class="tocnumber">1.2</span> <span class="toctext">Impersonal gods</span></a></li> </ul> </li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4"><a href="#Sorta.27_monotheism"><span class="tocnumber">2</span> <span class="toctext">Sorta' monotheism</span></a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-5"><a href="#Monolatrism"><span class="tocnumber">2.1</span> <span class="toctext">Monolatrism</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-6"><a href="#Henotheism"><span class="tocnumber">2.2</span> <span class="toctext">Henotheism</span></a></li> </ul> </li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-7"><a href="#Polytheism"><span class="tocnumber">3</span> <span class="toctext">Polytheism</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-8"><a href="#See_also"><span class="tocnumber">4</span> <span class="toctext">See also</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-9"><a href="#References"><span class="tocnumber">5</span> <span class="toctext">References</span></a></li> </ul> </div> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Monotheism">Monotheism</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Theism&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Monotheism">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <div role="note" class="hatnote">See the main article on this topic: <a href="/wiki/Monotheism" title="Monotheism">Monotheism</a></div> <p>In monotheism, only one God exists. There are no other gods in the world. Most monotheists, however, tend to hold some technically untenable positions about beings like <a href="/wiki/Satan" title="Satan">Satan</a> or concepts like the <a href="/wiki/Trinity" title="Trinity">Trinity</a>. </p><p>Monotheism can further be divided into personal transcendent gods, and impersonal or non-transcendent gods. </p> <h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Personal_gods">Personal gods</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Theism&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Personal gods">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h3> <p>A personal god is one that involves him or herself in the world, engages with the prayerful, even perhaps asking people to fear and adore him. Some well-known examples of monotheistic religions with personal gods include the three <a href="/wiki/Abrahamic_religion" title="Abrahamic religion">Abrahamic religions</a> - <a href="/wiki/Christianity" title="Christianity">Christianity</a>, <a href="/wiki/Islam" title="Islam">Islam</a> and <a href="/wiki/Judaism" title="Judaism">Judaism</a>. </p> <h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Impersonal_gods">Impersonal gods</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Theism&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Impersonal gods">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h3> <p><b><a href="/wiki/Pantheism" title="Pantheism">Pantheism</a></b> involves the idea of God being all things. Theravada <a href="/wiki/Buddhism" title="Buddhism">Buddhism</a> could be said to be pantheistic or atheistic, depending on how you look at it. Atheist Wiccans often call themselves pantheistic. The difference becomes a political statement or position statement. If everything is god, then everything is the same, so what is the point of saying it is "god". <a href="/wiki/Monism" title="Monism">Monists</a> like <a href="/wiki/Baruch_Spinoza" title="Baruch Spinoza">Spinoza</a> (sometimes considered a panentheist - see below) provide classical examples of true pantheists. </p><p><b><a href="/wiki/Panentheism" title="Panentheism">Panentheism</a></b> the 'en' (Greek for "in") gives away the difference: there is a God, and it is present in all things, but the universe and God are not identical entities. This may be thought of as the universe being a part of the divine which extends far beyond it, rather than the universe being outside of it. </p> <h2><span id="Sorta'_monotheism"></span><span class="mw-headline" id="Sorta.27_monotheism">Sorta' monotheism</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Theism&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Sorta' monotheism">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <p>There are definitions for religions where only one god is worshiped by a people, but they acknowledge the presence of other Gods in the Universe. </p> <h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Monolatrism">Monolatrism</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Theism&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Monolatrism">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h3> <div role="note" class="hatnote">See the main article on this topic: <a href="/wiki/Monolatrism" title="Monolatrism">monolatrism</a></div> <p>Monolatrists acknowledge only one true god, and all others are false or evil though those other gods do exist in the world. Ancient Christianity, with its placement in and around the polytheistic Greeks was Monolatrist, describing other Gods as shadows of Satan. A well-known modern representative of monolatrism is the <a href="/wiki/Mormon" class="mw-redirect" title="Mormon">Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints</a>. </p> <h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Henotheism">Henotheism</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Theism&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Henotheism">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h3> <p>Henotheists acknowledge only one god, but admit that other gods may exist, and that there is no universally correct path, all "good" gods are equally valid. But within their own community, only the one god is worshiped or valued as "real". </p><p>Many in the Unitarian Universalist church, especially those who have come from Christianity, are henotheistic. The <a href="/wiki/Baha%27i" class="mw-redirect" title="Baha'i">Baha'i</a> religion also holds to a doctrine that could be construed as henotheistic, at least to the extent that the Abrahamic faiths are all held to teach essentially the same thing, regardless of different characteristics of their particular personifications of God. </p> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Polytheism">Polytheism</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Theism&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Polytheism">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <div role="note" class="hatnote">See the main article on this topic: <a href="/wiki/Polytheism" title="Polytheism">Polytheism</a></div> <p>In a polytheistic religion, several gods are worshiped as part of that religion. The pantheon of deities in such religions tend to specialise, in contrast with the ubiquitous gods of monotheistic religions. Most of human's culture's religions are polytheistic in nature, from various Native american religions, to the Classical Greeks, ancient Celtic religions, to the early Israelites. <a href="/wiki/Zoroastrian" class="mw-redirect" title="Zoroastrian">Zoroastrians</a> hold a belief in two complementary deities or, analogously to Christianity, two complementary aspects of a single deity. </p><p>Many <a href="/wiki/Pagan" class="mw-redirect" title="Pagan">pagan</a> and <a href="/wiki/Neo-pagan" class="mw-redirect" title="Neo-pagan">neo-pagan</a> religions subscribed or subscribe to some form of polytheism. </p> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="See_also">See also</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Theism&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: See also">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Faith" title="Faith">Faith</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion" 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