Divine Nature
Random isms:
- Apatheism = a person not caring about theism
- Anatheism = a position of Richard Kearney that seeks to find a stronger presence of God through the return of God through absence. ^[1] ^[2] Jacques Derrida and Bonhoeffer, who position the sacred within the realm of the secular, have influenced Kearney's view. ^[3]
— see Anatheism - Wikitia
- Igtheism or Ignosticism = not finding a definition of God that makes any sense
- Potheism = potho theism, desire, crave, yearning, wanting, missing God
- Pantheism, panentheism
- Transtheism - religious philosophy beyond theism and atheism, coined by Paul Tillich
- Alterity, God is so transcendent as to be completely disjoint from our reality, no longer even a being
- Epitheism* = epithymia theism / wish for God
- Epitheism* = God as an epi-phenomenon, or emergent
- Soft polytheism, different gods may be aspects of only one god, psychological archetypes or personifications of natural forces, and that the pantheons of other cultures may be representations of one single pantheon
- Polydeism, multiple gods made the universe then took off
- Ietsism - “something”-ism, meaning, “there must be something transcendental going on”
Isms made up by Jared
- pitheism - theism that can be understood easily and pithily is just a word game
- writheism - you have God pinned down and he is writhing on your mental hook, see God, Boxed-In
- smitheism - a custom God of your own making
- wraitheisn - any theism based on an invisible God that might as well be a ghost. Where exactly is this God?
- slitheism - worship of slithy, vengeful ancient Gods such as Cthulhu
- smootheism - God is a blend of ideas, see Trinity
- slotheism- God will be back, any day now
- frotheism - God is an epiphenomenon like froth on beer
- youtheism - only God can grant me eternal life so I treat him like the fountain of youth