What is Monist Theism?

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Is there a monist theism? Could there be? What are the implications of a monist theism?

I've read that there are two major positions on the brain and the mind (or soul): Dualism and Monism. Dualists believe that the mind and brain are separate; Monists believe that the brain and mind are one. Most religions are dualist. Christianity, as most other religions, dictates that when we die, our soul goes somewhere else totally independent of our body and brain, hence Christians are dualists. I'm a monist because a relationship between brain activity and 'mental activity' has been demonstrated with MRIs and other experiments and I believe these demonstrations are evidence enough that thought processes (the mind) can't exist without the brain.

There is more than one form of dualism... the dualism I assumed you meant was that there are separate 'physical' and 'spiritual' realms/planes/substances. Of which there are many dualistic religions.

There may also be monistic ones, however... and they would believe that everything exists as one type of thing (natural or spiritual or whatever, the term applied would describe naturalism (but from a theist's perspective)). So 'is there one?', I do not know. Could there be one? Yes. What are the implications of one? It would be impossible to argue against it with common arguments such as "how can the physical and the spiritual react?". Instead, it would appear to be naturalism, and thus we really couldn't argue against it except by supposing a dualism of a kind.

So far as mind/brain goes... a monistic theism might contend that they are one and the same.