Divinity

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divinity (countable and uncountable; plural divinities)

  • 1. (uncountable) The property of being divine, of being like a god or God.
  • 2. (countable) A deity (a god, goddess or God).
  • 3. (uncountable) The study of religion or religions.

Harvard Divinity School has been teaching theology since 1636.

Etymology

Latin divinitas [1]


DIVINITY is the characteristic, unifying, and co-ordinating quality of Deity.

Divinity is creature comprehensible as truth, beauty, and goodness; correlated in personality as love, mercy, and ministry; disclosed on impersonal levels as justice, power, and sovereignty.

Divinity may be perfect--complete--as on existential and creator levels of Paradise perfection; it may be imperfect, as on experiential and creature levels of time-space evolution; or it may be relative, neither perfect nor imperfect, as on certain Havona levels of existential-experiential relationships.

When we attempt to conceive of perfection in all phases and forms of relativity, we encounter seven conceivable types:

  • 1. Absolute perfection in all aspects.
  • 2. Absolute perfection in some phases and relative perfection in all other aspects.
  • 3. Absolute, relative, and imperfect aspects in varied association.
  • 4. Absolute perfection in some respects, imperfection in all others.
  • 5. Absolute perfection in no direction, relative perfection in all manifestations.
  • 6. Absolute perfection in no phase, relative in some, imperfect in others.
  • 7. Absolute perfection in no attribute, imperfection in all. [2]