History of Theism

	Revision 11 . . December 16, 2001 3:47 pm by Egern [No need to lump pantheism and panentheism into the same category; they are different views of God]
	Revision 10 . . (edit) December 16, 2001 10:17 am by Craig Pennington [forgot to preview. Added a carriage return.]
	Revision 9 . . December 16, 2001 10:15 am by Craig Pennington [changing phrase/word order, emphasis on proper theism.]
	Revision 8 . . December 15, 2001 11:26 pm by Craig Pennington [Changed to the philosphy of religions def, moved generic def to bottom.]
	Revision 7 . . December 14, 2001 4:20 am by Craig Pennington [Added the initial more general definition, changed some terminology, added /Talk]
	Revision 6 . . October 2, 2001 6:03 am by Egern [Added link to panentheism]

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In the Philosophy of religion, the belief in God as unitary being. There are three major views of the role of God in the world in this context: proper Theism is the view that God is immanent? in the world, yet transcends? it; Deism is the view that God created the world but does not interact with it; and the view that the world is the whole or a part of God is called Pantheism or Panentheism respectively.

In the Philosophy of religion, Theism is the belief in God as unitary being. There are four major views of the role of God in the world in this context: proper Theism is the view that God is immanent? in the world, yet transcends? it; Deism is the view that God created the world but does not interact with it; Pantheism is the the view that the world is identical to God; and Panentheism is the view that the world entirely contained within God, while at the same time God is something greater than just the world.

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More generically, the belief in one or more gods.

More generically, theism can be described as the belief in one or more gods.