Philosophy of Religion 1

Personal deity

• interacts with the created realm in some fashion or other

• does not interact with the created realm

• permeates the created realm

• transcends the created realm

Impersonal divinity

• does not interact with the created realm apart from creating or sustaining it

• interacts with created beings

• above and beyond the created realm

• gods are only personifications of a still higher, ultimate being

Pantheism

• God is in everything and does not transcend the created realm

• God is in everything and transcends all things

• God transcends all things and does not mix with created things

• God does not interact with things

Transcendent

• being above and beyond, eternal, and outside of the created realm

• being within the created realm and not at all outside it

• being both within and above and beyond the created realm

• never coming into contact with finite things

Immanent

• going to happen very soon

• within and through the created realm

• above and beyond the created realm

• neither within nor beyond the created realm

Panentheism

• god is in everything while also transcending all things

• god is in everything

• god transcends all things

• god is neither within nor transcending all things

There are definitely zero gods or ultimate beings

• atheism

• absolute atheism

• religious atheisms

• agnosticism

The general belief in a god or gods, personal or impersonal of any type or quality.

• theism

• deism

• monotheism

• henotheism

There is one god only and no other gods apart from that one god.

• monotheism

• henotheism

• exclusivism

• theism

There is one god "for us," there may or may not be other gods for other people.

• henotheism

• monotheism

• theism

• deism