{"id":18,"date":"2008-01-23T16:53:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-23T20:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alanrhoda.net\/wordpress\/?p=18"},"modified":"2008-01-23T16:53:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-23T20:53:00","slug":"models-of-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/alanrhoda.net\/wordpress\/2008\/01\/models-of-god\/","title":{"rendered":"Models of God"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just a brief post to see if anyone had any questions about any of the non-monotheistic models of God that I touched on in the first class. Those alternative models were these:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Polytheism: There are many finite gods who exist wholly <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">within<\/span> the Cosmos.<\/li>\n<li>Pantheism: Everything either is God, a part of God, or a mode or manifestation of God.<\/li>\n<li>Panentheism: All is <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">in<\/span> God. The world is God&#8217;s body. God and the Cosmos eternally exist in a symbiotic relationship.<\/li>\n<li>Neo-Platonism: There is one eternal God from whom the Cosmos and all other realities <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">necessarily <\/span>emanate like light does from the Sun.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Here&#8217;s another one that I didn&#8217;t mention in class:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Plato&#8217;s &#8216;Demiurge&#8217;: The Demiurge does not create the world <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">ex nihilo<\/span> but rather fashions it out of pre-existing matter or stuff. The Demiurge, material stuff, and the Platonic Forms are three independently existing parts of reality.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Do any other models of God come to mind?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just a brief post to see if anyone had any questions about any of the non-monotheistic models of God that I touched on in the first class. Those alternative models were these: Polytheism: There are many finite gods who exist wholly within the Cosmos. Pantheism: Everything either is God, a part of God, or a\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/alanrhoda.net\/wordpress\/2008\/01\/models-of-god\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/alanrhoda.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/alanrhoda.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/alanrhoda.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alanrhoda.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alanrhoda.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/alanrhoda.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/alanrhoda.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alanrhoda.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alanrhoda.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}