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-"[[I would only believe in a God that knows how to dance]]" -- Nietzsche in ''[[Thus Spoke Zarathustra]]''+"God is an infinite sphere whose center everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere" [[Nature is an infinite sphere, whose center is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere |[...]]]
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[[Image:God.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Detail of [[Sistine Chapel]] fresco ''[[Creation of the Sun and Moon]]'' by [[Michelangelo]] (completed [[1512]]).]] [[Image:God.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Detail of [[Sistine Chapel]] fresco ''[[Creation of the Sun and Moon]]'' by [[Michelangelo]] (completed [[1512]]).]]
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Monotheist conceptions of God appear in the [[Hellenistic period]], out of predecessor concepts of [[monism]] (mostly in [[Eastern religions]]) and [[henotheism]]. Monotheist conceptions of God appear in the [[Hellenistic period]], out of predecessor concepts of [[monism]] (mostly in [[Eastern religions]]) and [[henotheism]].
 +== See also ==
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 +* [[Names of God]]
 +* [[Theism]]
 +* [[Singular God]]
 +* [[Trinitarianism]]
 +* [[Existence of God]]
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Conceptions of God can vary widely, despite the use of the same term for them all.

The God of monotheism, pantheism or panentheism, or the supreme deity of henotheistic religions, may be conceived of in various degrees of abstraction:

Monotheist conceptions of God appear in the Hellenistic period, out of predecessor concepts of monism (mostly in Eastern religions) and henotheism.

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