(July 13, 2024 at 2:22 am)Paleophyte Wrote: Strictly speaking that's henotheism, polytheism with a chieftan.
No, I don't think so. If the Prime Mover is ontically entirely different from the small-g gods then he's not simply the boss.
Quote:The Abrahamic Prime Mover has personality, intention, and, traditionally, testicles. By contrast, Brahman simply is. Some traditions worship and pray to Brahman, after a sense, but endowing it with personality or human attributes would just be weird.
Depending on which Abrahamic tradition you're talking about. Discussions often get bogged down when someone is blending up, say, Thomist theology with some TV evangelist. There are many versions of the God of the Theologians, or the God of the Philosophers, and none of them has testicles.
