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    Deity is above mind in the hierarchy. — Carmelics
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    Supports→We cannot know what deity will be like when deity emerges.

    Deity is above mind in the hierarchy.

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    In the middle, between the theistic dualisms and the pantheisms, stand the merotheisms and the panentheisms (two general kinds of models, 16 and 17, again, species coming). As indicated above, the merotheisms are rare, the “odd bird” idea that God is in the world, but the world goes beyond God. Though the term “merotheism” was coined only recently by Paul Draper for his own view (2019: 160), merotheisms have been around well before, for example, in divine emergence theories such as Samuel Alexan

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