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[...] The divinity is used when one does not really know how to designate the status of the entity. It is summed up in defining a divine, celestial, and definitive character that allows access to another level than that of humanity. Divinity is defined by opposition to what is human or terrestrial, it designates a substance in contact with the divine. Gods and divinities are thus represented in different ways in cultures throughout history. Often in the image of men, due to the possibilities that language has to imagine and describe them, in their appearance and behavior, they are distinguished from humans by their powers, their virtues?8 their superior and wonderful character in all respects, but also by their immortality. [...]
[...] divinity/deity/day) and from the Greek ( [...]
[...] That is to say, a culture that can render a cult to all the realities of everyday life, to all the virtues, to all non-human beings/creatures, to all spirits, cosmic energies, etc. and a society that can categorize them in the sphere of the divine. The term "divinity" in French thus broadens what is meant by god in French, in the logic of a Judeo-Christian monotheistic society where the god is unique6. In the monotheistic context, divinity refers to the concept of god or is a sustained synonym. Thus, there is indeed a link between the concept of divinity and polytheism7. [...]
[...] However, if the construction of the divine, in the history of civilizations, has appeared as a transcendent figure, it remains that it is gradually doubled in the monotheistic religions by a form of immanence contrary to the original association of the divine and the celestial. This is an evolution, a shift to add to the concept of 'divinity' in its modern acceptance and applied to Western polytheistic religions. 4. Bibliography Jack Assmann, Of God and Gods, Egypt, Israel, and the Rise of Monotheism, Madison, 2008. Karl Barth, Dogmatique, vol tome 1 [Trad. [...]
[...] In fact, what etymology of the concept of 'divinity' teaches us is that the Proto-Indo-European root used *dei-(where-) is pandialectal and recruited for two parallel lexical fields: light/day the divine. In this sense, in the civilizations and cultures that come from the Indo-European group, the divine concept is related to a transcendent and fundamental reality. The use of this root in the earliest stages of languages testifies to the essential character of these joint notions in these cultures. Lexicology and Notional Since Latin, the term 'divinity' has evolved and no longer refers only to 'the concept of divine'. [...]
