Re: Taxonomy of supernatural beings
| From: | J Y S Czhang <czhang23@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, September 19, 2002, 5:09 |
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In a message dated 09/18/2002 09.20.06 AM, pkroser@EXECPC.COM writes:
>I wouldn't consider this monotheism - my understanding of Hinduism
>is that it encompasses the belief in many gods, as well as the
>belief that all things are a part of one transcendent god (which
>could as easily be written God in this case), so I would think that
>this qualified as a variety of polytheism instead?
Panentheism, not polytheism.
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