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ditheism|ˈdaɪθiːɪz(ə)m|
[f. di-2 + theism.]
Belief in two supreme gods; religious dualism; esp. the belief in two independent antagonistic principles of good and evil, as in Zoroastrianism and Manicheism. Also applied (controversially) to forms of belief in which it is asserted or implied that Jesus Christ is not of one substance with God the Father, as in Arianism and Socinianism.
1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. i. iv. §13. 213 That fore⁓mentioned Ditheism, or opinion of two gods, a good and an evil one. 1719Waterland Vind. Christ's Divinity 84 The common Answer to the Charge of Tritheism, or Ditheism, as well of the Post-Nicene, as Ante-Nicene Fathers, was, that there is but one Head, Root, Fountain, Father of all; not in respect of Authority only, but of Substance also. 1854Milman Lat. Chr. I. 45 Callistus..hoped to elude the charge on one side of Patripassianism, on the other of Ditheism. 1895A. C. Headlam in Expository Times Mar. 266 The Father and the Son are..one in their action, one in their purpose..If we are to realize..the Atonement, we must put aside all idea of ditheism or tritheism. |