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	Theism - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Theism, from the term theos (Greek for “god”), belief in one God who is personal and worthy of worship, who transcends the world but takes an active...
		Theism, however, is not a characteristic of all religions.
		Some religions reject theism but are not entirely atheistic.
	ca.encarta.msn.com /Theism.html (128 words)

	Theism - LoveToKnow 1911
		But this theism is lifeless - a " pale and shallow deism, which India has often confessed with the lips, but which has never won the homage of her heart.'" The thought of India is upon the side of pantheism.
		Theism is an afterthought - the reply to doubt - the attempted reflective justification of what announced it s elf at first as a prophetic certainty.
		The theism of Hegel is ambiguous.' Later theists may be grouped according as their thought has been remoulded or not by the influences of Kant.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Theism (17957 words)

	Stephen Hawking's Cosmology and Theism
		I shall discuss acausal and causal versions of nonclassical theism and determine the respects in which they are consistent with the obtaining of the wave function law.
		This tenet is inconsistent with acausal theism, since according to acausal theism the universe is not created by God but instead came into existence uncaused in accordance with a probabilistic law.
		The classical theist may resist the suggestion that she must retreat to an acausal version of theism in order to retain a theistic belief that is consistent with Hawking's cosmology.
	www.infidels.org /library/modern/quentin_smith/hawking.html (3089 words)

	Pantheism (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
		Theism is the belief in a "personal" God which in some sense is separate from (transcends) the world.
		The "problem of evil," as it appears in classical theism, cannot be relevant to pantheism since pantheism rejects all of the aspects of theism that are essential to generating the problem.
		Charles Hartshorne (1953), as a proponent of dipolar theism or panentheism made it a good part of his life's work to show that theism has pantheistic elements in it and that philosophical systems that are primarily pantheistic also have theistic elements in them — and he discusses the Stoics in various places.
	plato.stanford.edu /entries/pantheism (15182 words)

	Reasons To Believe: Theism vs. the Many-Worlds Hypothesis
		There are several considerations that raise the probability of theism still further, suggesting that theism is a better explanation of the available data, or that theism is needed as an explanation for the existence of such a large number of universes.
		However, the bare possibility of such an error does not change the fact that theism is the most reasonable conclusion on the basis of the evidence actually available.
		Theism can explain this higher-order fine-tuning, since presumably God designed the basic form of the laws of nature, and did so in such a way as to make anthropic fine-tuning of the physical constants possible.
	www.reasons.org /resources/apologetics/other_papers/koons_robert_theism_vs_the_many_worlds_hypothesis.shtml (2493 words)

	Theism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Theism is the belief in the existence of one or more Gods or deities.
		in which theism refers to the belief that God/(s) are immanent in the world, yet transcend it, along with the idea that God/(s) are omniscient, omnipotent and omnipresent.
		Theism (second definition): The doctrine that God (or Gods) is (or are) immanent in the world, yet transcends it.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Theism (1091 words)

	Theses On Canonical Theism
		Thesis I: Canonical theism is a term invented to capture the robust form of theism manifested, lived, and expressed in the canonical heritage of the Church.
		Canonical theism differs from Classical theism in that the latter is a historical notion drawn from the history of ideas and used to designate a strong monotheism with impassibilist connotations.
		Canonical theism is intimately tied to the notion of the canonical heritage of the Church.
	people.smu.edu /canonicaltheism/CTTheses.htm (1911 words)

	Biblical Theism - Humanism exposed. Christianity is Superior! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		Theism is the opposite of atheism, which is belief that there is no god.
		Biblical theism and secularism are locked in ideological conflicts.
		This is a philosophical war because it is a contest between biblical theism and modern humanism, between God’s word and human judgment.
	www.biblicaltheism.com (779 words)

	Agnostic theism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		According to Theism, the opinion that gods or deities exist, and Agnosticism is that existence unknown or inherently unknowable.
		Agnostic Theism could be interpreted as an admission that it is not possible to justify one's belief in god(s) sufficiently for it to be considered known.
		His argument against agnostic theism is that it is contradictory to state that a being is inherently or currently unknowable, and yet positively assert a belief in its existence.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Agnostic_theism (1258 words)

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		Philosophical theism is a belief that God exists (or must exist), independent of the teaching or relevation of any particular religion.
		Theism, one of the three major worldviews, traces its roots to Abraham the father of the Hebrews.
		Classical theism is found in the Greeks since Plato; in the Judaism of Philo, Maimonides, and others; in Christian orthodoxy generally, and in Islam as early as al-Kindi.
	www.lycos.com /info/theism.html (593 words)

	What is open theism?
		Open Theism holds that the future is not knowable.
		In contradiction to Open Theism, Psalm 139, verses 4 and 16 state, "Before a word is on my tongue you know it completely, O LORD...
		While Open Theism is an explanation for the relationship between God's foreknowledge and human free will - it is not the Biblical explanation.
	www.gotquestions.org /open-theism.html (384 words)

	Open Theism [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
		Proponents of Open Theism allow that their view is at odds with the great majority of the Christian tradition in rejecting both meticulous providence and divine foreknowledge of what will contingently occur.
		Critics of Open Theism offer alternative interpretations of the passages frequently cited by Open Theists, and bring forward their own proof texts that the Biblical God is one whose sovereignty over creation includes exhaustive foreknowledge and ultimate control over each and every aspect of His creation.
		An exposition of Open Theism in terms of the controlling metaphor of God as love that treats in turn: the Scriptural foundations for Open Theism, the development of traditional Christianity influenced by Hellenic philosophy, the philosophical case for Open Theism, and Open Theism’s adequacy to the practical demands of living one’s faith.
	www.iep.utm.edu /o/o-theism.htm (7554 words)

	Why Theism vs Atheism Debates are Futile
		I suggest that the underlying premises in Theism versus Atheism debates are whether or not nature's laws of the universe are 1) supernaturally malleable or are 2) immutably structured.
		Theism assumes the former (alterable laws) while Atheism assumes the later (unalterable laws).
		Theism could selectively claim that particularly convincing scientific discoveries are merely exposing God's mechanisms of creation which have been designed into the universe.
	www.proaxis.com /~randau2/singles/atheism.htm (1741 words)

	The Justification of Theism
		We should seek a similar explanation for that vast coincidence which we describe as the conformity of objects to laws of nature-for example, the fact that all electrons are produced, attract and repel other particles and combine with them in exactly the same way at each point of endless time and space.
		The hypothesis of theism is that the Universe exists because there is a God who keeps it in being and that laws of nature operate because there is a God who brings it about that they do.
		Theism is able to explain the most general phenomena of science and more particular historical facts, but it is also able to explain our own individual religious experiences.
	www.leaderu.com /truth/3truth09.html (6178 words)

	Jain Theism
		Theism, as we have seen, basically means belief in God, and where God is believed.
		Theism and even the place of God in it, is a logical pursuit in the Western Theology - God is proved and then accepted.
		Moreover, we find in all traditional theism ther is devotion and the expression of devotion is through prayers, rites and rituals as well as faithful obedience towards the scriptural commandments.
	www.meta-religion.com /World_Religions/Jainism/jain_theism.htm (4539 words)

	Theism - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Theism, religious belief in one Supreme Being who is the source and sustainer of the universe and at the same time is distinguished from it.
		God (quotations): God: Theism is so confused and the sentences in which…
		Theism is so confused and the sentences in which 'God' appears so incoherent and so incapable of verification or falsification that to speak of...
	uk.encarta.msn.com /Theism.html (145 words)

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		The Design argument is not drawn from mere resemblances in Nature to the works of human intelligence, but from the special character of those resemblances.
		This essay presents a concise formulation of the problem from evil and argues that theists have failed to provide a satisfactory answer to it.
		This is an important distinction, for he does not show the strength of the atheistic hypothesis.
	www.lycos.com /info/theism--arguments.html (338 words)

	Why open theism is not merely an academic debate - (BP) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		The problem of evil and suffering is a personal, practical issue for many of the leading advocates of open theism because of their personal, existential suffering.
		In contrast to open theism's lack of a divine plan, Christians throughout history received comfort from the realization that their suffering served an important purpose for their good.
		The assault on the biblical, historic doctrine of God found in tenets of open theism is one that must be opposed by all believers -- inspired by the model of the Bereans -- who know that our future hope is found only in a God who holds the future.
	www.bpnews.net /bpnews.asp?ID=16267 (1069 words)

	DARWINISM: SCIENCE OR PHILOSOPHY? Chapter 4
		The leading Darwinist authorities are frank about the incompatibility of their theory with any meaningful concept of theism when they are in friendly territory, but for strategic reasons they sometimes choose to blur the message.
		In short, the reason that Darwinism and theism are incompatible is not that God could not have used evolution by natural selection to create.
		The contradiction between Darwinism and theism is at a deeper level.
	www.leaderu.com /orgs/fte/darwinism/chapter4.html (2674 words)

	Process Theism (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
		Process theism typically refers to a family of theological ideas originating in, inspired by, or in agreement with the metaphysical orientation of the English philosopher-mathematician Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947) and the American philosopher-ornithologist Charles Hartshorne (1897-2000).
		This is one meaning of the expression “dipolar theism”; in light of other meanings to be given to “dipolar” in discussions of process theism, it is perhaps clearer to use Hartshorne's expression for this idea: dual transcendence, that is to say, God as the supreme embodiment of each pair of metaphysical contraries.
		To speak of open theism as a school of thought distinct from process theism is ironic since God's openness to creaturely influence is precisely the shared content of their views.
	plato.stanford.edu /entries/process-theism (20851 words)

	Theism
		Theism is a philosophically or theologically reasoned understanding of reality that affirms that the source and continuing ground of all things is in God; that the meaning and fulfillment of all things lie in their relation to God; and that God intends to realize that meaning and fulfillment.
		"Theism" is often used as the opposite of "atheism," the term for denial of the existence of God, and distinguishes a theist from an atheist or agnostic without attempting any technical philosophical or theological connection.
		According to bipolar theism, every actual entity (and God is perceived as such) needs a physical pole to complete the "vision" of its potential pole.
	mb-soft.com /believe/text/theism.htm (2118 words)

	Theism
		Theism is the belief in a god or gods.
		Classical theism affirms the existence of one god, and ascribes to this god certain attributes, e.g.
		Theism, against each of the views described above, affirms both the existence of a transcendent God and that that God is involved in Creation.
	www.theism.info (531 words)

	THEISM VS ATHEISM - Associated Content
		Theism is belief in the existence of God with or without a belief in a special revelation.
		Theism has promises of better life for mankind after death.Theism thrives on poverty and hope.
		Jim Stillman: Both theism and atheism rely on pure faith, since there can never be pure scientific evidence of God or His non-existence.
	www.associatedcontent.com /article/90502/theism_vs_atheism.html (567 words)

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