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Ditheism
Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
or the worship of two gods.
(1.) This term was sometimes applied by the orthodox to the Arians, on the ground that they believed in one God, the Father, who is eternal, and one God, the Son, not eternal.
(2.) The term is also applied to the doctrine of two first principles, or gods, one good, the other evil. "The chiefest and most eminent asserters of this ditheistic doctrine of two self-existent principles in the universe were the Marcionites and the Manichaeans, both of which sects, though they made some slight pretense to Christianity, yet were not by Christians owned for such. Some of the pagans also entertained the same opinion." — Cudworth, True Intellectual System (Andover, 1837), 1:290., (See DUALISM).
Dithmar Justus Christoph,
a German divine and jurist, was born March 13, 1677, at Rottenburg, in Hesse. After studying at the University of Marburg, where he applied himself to theology and the Oriental languages, he removed to Leyden, where he was offered a professorship, which he refused in order to accompany a family, in which he was tutor, to Frankfort on the Oder, where he first became professor of history, then of the law of nature, and finally of statistics and finance. He was made a member of the Royal Society of Berlin, and a counselor of the order of St. John. He died at Frankfort in 1737. Among his works are, Gregorii VII Pont. Romani Vita (Frankf, 1710, 8vo): — Historia Belli inter Imperium et Sacerdotium (ibid. 8vo): — Summa Capita Antiq. Judaicarum et Romanarum in usum Praelectionum privatarum (ibid. 4to). — Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Generale, 14:327.
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McClintock, John. Strong, James. Entry for 'Ditheism'. Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/tce/d/ditheism.html. Harper & Brothers. New York. 1870.
