different between misotheism vs eutheism

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ???????? (misótheos, “hating the gods”), from ????? (mísos, “hatred”) +? ???? (theós, “god”). The Greek compound is found in Aeschylus (Agamemnon 1090; compare dystheism). The English word appears as a nonce-coinage, used by T. De Quincey in 1846.

Noun

misotheism (uncountable)

1. (obsolete, rare) hatred of God or gods

See also

• maltheism

References

• "misotheism" in the Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, MICRA, 1996, 1998.
• “misotheism”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
• N.E.D. (1907)

English

Etymology

Nonce-coinage from eu- +? theism (as antonym of dystheism)Attestation in a 1998 theology lecture [1].Humorous attestation on Usenet in 2002[2].

Noun

eutheism (uncountable)

1. the belief that there is a god, and that this god is good
   • 2013, David H. Schraub, "Our Divine Constitution", 44 Loyola University Chicago Law Journal 1201 (2013)

     Protest theology rejects the often axiomatic assumption that God is always good or just (eutheism). More to the point, it holds that the eutheistic outlook not only stunts our ability to have a true, meaningful relationship with God, but that the theological contortions it demands also cause us to miss several important themes and lessons latent in the Hebrew Bible.

   • 2019, Cometan, The Duodoxy: The Principles of The Logical Cosmos, p. 254:

     Dystheism revolves around “the belief that a god, goddess, or singular God is not wholly good (eutheism) as is commonly believed (such as in the monotheistic religions of Christianity and Judaism), and is possibly evil.”

See also

• dystheism
• maltheism
• misotheism

Anagrams

• hemusite