Divinity

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"Center for the Study of World Religions, Rear view of the CSWR-Founded in 1960 after an anonymous donation in 1957, the CSWR at Harvard Divinity School is a residential community of academic fellows, graduate students, and visiting professors of major world religious traditions. The Center focuses on the understanding of international religions through its research, publications, funding, and public programs."
"Divinity School, Bodleian Library at Oxford University"

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[1] has been teaching theology since 1636.

Etymology

Latin divinitas [2]


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. [3]