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Determinism
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World
...determined by the creative act of God, the "first cause." Being omniscient, God knows timelessly all there is to know about his creation...extrinsic causes. Leibniz, whose God is the traditional omniscient creator of the world, agreed that all acts, including acts...
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Supreme Being
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences
...simplicity, theistic traditions talk about an omnipotent, omniscient, and perfectly good God. Unlike a limited God (where the...have no reason to assume that this designer is omnipotent, omniscient, or perfectly good. Indeed, given evil and suffering in...
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religion
Book article from: World Encyclopedia
...contemplation (for example, Buddhism and Taoism ). The ancient Hebrews were among the first people to worship a single omniscient and omnipotent being, Yahweh . He gave them His protection in return for their total faith and obedience. Common to all...
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Jeeves
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
Jeeves, in many of P. G. Wodehouse's stories, the omniscient and resourceful valet.
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The Buddha
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...religious teacher, and the historical founder of Buddhism. He is regarded variously as a human spiritual teacher or an omniscient, active deity. India during the 6th century B.C. was a land of religious and political turmoil. The Northwest was dominated...
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John Calvin
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...own salvation. God is glorious and magnificent beyond man's highest capacity to comprehend; He is both omnipotent and omniscient, and He has, merely by His knowing, foreordained all things that ever will come to pass. Man is helpless in the face of...
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Shankara
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...Soul (Atman) which in its ultimate sacred form is called Brahman: "Brahman exists eternal, pure, enlightened, free, omniscient, and all powerful." It is the source and end of all phenomena. This metaphysic has two particularly important aspects...
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Orthodoxy
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History
...of God through nature, the revelation of Christ, and Christian tradition. God is described as eternal, perfectly good, omniscient, perfectly righteous, almighty, and omnipresent. Human beings are described as possessing both body and soul and having...
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Fielding, Henry
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World
...Parson Adams. The novel's originality lies with its self-consciousness as fiction and the strong authorial presence of an omniscient narrator introducing each chapter and controlling the pace and plot. In 1743, Fielding published the successful Miscellanies...
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Greek Mystery Schools
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of the Unusual and Unexplained
...all-powerful entities, none of them were omnipotent. Although they were capable of exhibiting wisdom, none of them were omniscient. And they often found themselves just as subject to the whims of Fate as the humans who prayed to them for their guidance...
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