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God
General conceptions
Atheism · Deism · Henotheism · Monolatrism
Monotheism · Panentheism · Pantheism
Specific conceptions
Creator · Architect · Demiurge · Sustainer
Lord · Father · Monad · Oneness
Supreme Being · The All · Personal
Unitarianism · Ditheism · Trinity
in Abrahamic religions
(Bahá'à Faith, Christianity, Islam, Judaism)
in Ayyavazhi · in Buddhism · in Hinduism
in Jainism · in Sikhism · in Zoroastrianism
Attributes
Eternalness · Existence · Gender
Names ("God") · Omnibenevolence
Omnipotence · Omnipresence · Omniscience
Experience and practices
Faith · Prayer · Belief · Revelation
Fideism · Gnosis · Metaphysics
Mysticism · Hermeticism · Esotericism
Related topics
Philosophy · Religion · Ontology
God complex · Neurotheology
Euthyphro dilemma · Problem of evil
Portrayal in popular media
List of religious texts
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In theology, monotheism (from Greek μόνος "only" and θεός "God") is the belief that only one God exists.[1] The concept of "monotheism" tends to be dominated by the concept of God in the Abrahamic religions, such as Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Sikhism and the Bahá'à Faith, and the Platonic concept of God as put forward by Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite.Due to its Abrahamic association, the concept of monotheism has often been defined in contrast to polytheistic and pantheistic religions, and monotheism tends to overlap with other unitary concepts, such as monism. However, there are several examples of pantheistic religions that only adher to one divinity, and therefore, in its strict sense, could be regarded as monotheist, for example Zoroastrianism and Brahmanism (a variation of the otherwise polytheist Hinduism which limits itself to the worship of Brahman). |
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