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Wiccan views of divinity are generally theistic, and revolve around a Goddess and a Horned God, thereby being generally dualistic.In traditional Wicca, as expressed in the writings of Gerald Gardner and Doreen Valiente, the emphasis is on the theme of divine gender polarity, and the God and Goddess are regarded as equal and opposite divine cosmic forces.
A Wiccan altar belonging to Doreen Valiente, displaying the Wiccan view of sexual duality in divinity Such views have also led many pagans to revere the planet Earth as Mother Earth , who is often referred to as Gaia after the ancient Greek goddess of the Earth.
Jesus Through Pagan Eyes: Bridging Neopagan Perspectives with a Progressive Vision of Christ. Llewellyn Worldwide. ISBN 978-0738731650. Wallace, Mark I. (2019). When God was a bird: Christianity, animism, and the re-enchantment of the world. Groundworks: ecological issues in philosophy and theology. New York, NY: Fordham University Press.
In his Small Catechism, he taught that witchcraft was a sin against the second commandment [12] and prescribed the Biblical penalty for it in a "table talk": On 25 August 1538 there was much discussion about witches and sorceresses who poisoned chicken eggs in the nests, or poisoned milk and butter.
The 2014 Pew Research Center's Religious Landscapes Survey included a subset of the New Age Spiritual Movement called "Pagan or Wiccan," reflecting that 3/4 of individuals identifying as New Age also identified as Pagan or Wiccan and placing Wiccans and Pagans at 0.3% of the total U.S. population or approximately 956,000 people of just over ...
Wiccan morality is expressed in a brief statement found within a text called the Wiccan Rede: "An it harm none, do what you will."("An" is an archaic word meaning "if".) The Rede differs from some other well-known moral codes (such as Christian or Islamic notion of sin) in that, while it does contain a prohibition, it is largely an encouragement to act fre
Immanent theology often distinguishes modern pagan movements from New Age movements. For modern pagans, the natural world is at the centre of conceptions of the sacred. [26] They generally promote views of completeness where mind–body dualism is absent and the world is regarded as fully functional. [27]
Within the American Wiccan and wider modern pagan community, the Frosts have been at the center of various disputes, particularly surrounding issues such as homosexuality and theology. [10] The Wiccan Margot Adler suggested that much of this controversy stemmed from Gavin's "wry and rather bizarre sense of humor, and his tendency to say ...