单词 | ditheism |
释义 | ditheismn. 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. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > theism > [noun] > polytheism > belief in two supreme gods ditheism1678 bitheism1884 1678 R. Cudworth True Intellect. Syst. Universe i. iv. 213 That forementioned Ditheism, or Opinion of Two Gods, a Good and an Evil one. 1719 D. Waterland Vindic. 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. 1854 H. H. Milman Hist. Lat. Christianity I. i. i. 45 Callistus..hoped to elude the charge on one side of Patripassianism, on the other of Ditheism. 1895 A. 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. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online June 2018). < n.1678 |
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