Concept

Creator deity

Overview

deity responsible for the creation of the universe

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By this procedure, then, he produced the Universe, a blessed god. The Deity, however, did not, as we now undertake to say, form the soul posterior and junior to the body: for he who conjoined these, would never have allowed the more ancient nature to be governed by the younger:—and…
Plato, The works of Plato
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Now, when all of them, both those who visibly appear in their revolutions as well as those other gods who are of a more retiring nature, had come into being, the creator of the universe addressed them in these words: ‘Gods, children of gods, who are my works, and of whom I am the artificer and father, my creations are indissoluble, if so I will. All that is bound may be undone, but only an evil being would wish to…
Plato, Timaeus
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In this chapter I shall explain to you how the Mutakallemim prove the Unity of God. They contend that the Maker and Creator of the Universe, the existence of whom is testified by all nature, is One. Two propositions are employed by them in demonstrating the Unity of God, viz., two deities or more would neutralize each other, and if several deities existed they would be distinguished from each other by a specific…
Moses Maimonides, The guide for the perplexed
Close in meaning to Creator deity; the term itself is not named.
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Philosophers who discussed Creator deity

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Rejection of evolution by religious groups

Place in the tradition

Part of Atheism.

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