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THEISM, ARGUMENTS FOR AND AGAINST. Philosophy of religion enjoyed a renaissance in the final third of the twentieth century. Its fruits include important contributions to both natural theology, the enterprise of arguing for theism, and natural atheology, the enterprise of arguing against it.
Example 1 Theism plays a major role in the God of War games. In these video games, you play a demigod (half-god, half-human) seeking revenge against various gods from Greek mythology.
Arguments in favor of theism include the Cosmological Argument, which posits a First Cause for the universe's existence; the Teleological Argument, suggesting purposeful design in the universe; the Moral Argument, positing God's existence as the basis for objective moral values; and personal experiences or revelations reported by individuals.
Arguments in support of theism include the ontological, cosmological, teleological, and moral arguments. Arguments in support of atheism, on the other hand, include the arguments from evil, from no best world, and from divine hiddenness.
Theism is broadly defined as the belief in the existence of at least one deity. [1][2] In common parlance, or when contrasted with deism, the term often describes the philosophical conception of God that is found in classical theism —or the conception found in monotheism —or gods found in polytheistic religions—or a belief in God or gods without...
6 dni temu · Theism, the view that all limited or finite things are dependent in some way on one supreme or ultimate reality of which one may also speak in personal terms. In Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, this ultimate reality is often called God.
An early example of theism can be found in Zoroastrianism, the religion of the ancient Persians that still exists today. The supreme deity, Ahura Mazda , represents one of the first deities in human history to be described as inherently good and all-encompassing.
