incarnation
religion
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God
- In theism: Theism and incarnation
The core of human personality has often been thought to be human moral existence, and, accordingly, theists have often taken this fact to be the main clue to the way they are to think of divine perfection and to the recognition of a peculiar…
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place of soul in concepts of death
sacred kingship
- In sacred kingship: The divine or semidivine king
…king was regarded as the incarnation of the sun god or of the moon god. In addition to sky or sun deities, the sacred king also has been identified with other gods: the town god (Mesopotamia), the gods of the country, the god of the storm, and the weather god.…
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