different between monotheism vs transtheism

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English

Alternative forms

• mono-theism

Etymology

A learned 17th-century coinage, mono- +? theism, from (????? (monós, “one”)) and (???? (theós, “god, deity”) + -????? (-ismós)) The term parallels the earlier polytheism, atheism (the simplex theism being slightly later).The earliest known use is by Henry More, ca. 1660, in explicit juxtaposition with both atheism and polytheism.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m?no????i?zm?/

Noun

monotheism (countable and uncountable, plural monotheisms)

1. The belief in a single deity (one god or goddess); especially within an organized religion.

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• binitarianism, Binitarianism
• bitheism, Bitheism
• deism, Deism
• ditheism, Ditheism
• duotheism, Duotheism
• henotheism, Henotheism
• polytheism, Polytheism
• quadrinitarianism, Quadrinitarianism
• septarianism, Septarianism
• septenarianism, Septenarianism
• theism, Theism
• trinitarianism, Trinitarianism
• tritheism, Tritheism
• triunitarianism, Triunitarianism
• unitarianism, Unitarianism

Anagrams

• neo-Thomism, nomotheism, theomonism

English

Etymology

Back-formation from transtheistic, a term coined by Heinrich Zimmer for the theological system in Jainism.

Noun

transtheism (uncountable)

1. Beyond theism or atheism, belief in one or more deities which transcend the universe and yet are also immanent; belief in a panentheistic God.

Translations

See also

• pandeism
• panendeism
• panentheism
• pantheism
• theopanism