Godhead
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Godhead may refer to:
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- DeityDeityA deity is a recognized preternatural or supernatural immortal being, who may be thought of as holy, divine, or sacred, held in high regard, and respected by believers....
- DivinityDivinityDivinity and divine are broadly applied but loosely defined terms, used variously within different faiths and belief systems — and even by different individuals within a given faith — to refer to some transcendent or transcendental power or deity, or its attributes or manifestations in...
, the quality of being God - Conceptions of GodConceptions of GodThe God of monotheism, pantheism or panentheism, or the supreme deity of henotheistic religions, may be conceived of in various degrees of abstraction:...
- Godhead (polytheism), the totality of gods, in Platonism the Transcendent One.
- Godhead (Judaism)Godhead (Judaism)Godhead is used to refer to "God as He is in Himself." This is the aspect or substratum of God that lies behind His actions or properties, i.e., the essence of God, and its nature has been the subject of long debate in every major religion.-Terminology:...
, the unknowable aspect of God, which lies beyond His actions or emanations - Godhead (Christianity)Godhead (Christianity)Godhead is a Middle English variant of the word godhood, and denotes the Divine Nature or Substance of the Christian God, or the Trinity. Within some traditions such as Mormonism, the term is used as a nontrinitarian substitute for the term Trinity, denoting the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit not as...
, the substantial Essence or Nature of the Christian God - Godhead, the concept of God in Mormonism
- God in Hinduism
- Svayam BhagavanSvayam BhagavanSvayam Bhagavan , "The Lord" or Lord Himself, is a Sanskrit theological term. The term refers to the concept of absolute representation of the monotheistic God as Bhagavan within Hinduism....
(Supreme Personality of Godhead), in Gaudiya Vaishnavism, the divine person from whom all emanates - BrahmanBrahmanIn Hinduism, Brahman is the one supreme, universal Spirit that is the origin and support of the phenomenal universe. Brahman is sometimes referred to as the Absolute or Godhead which is the Divine Ground of all being...
, in Hinduism, the divine source of being, through which all emanates - Paramatma, in Hinduism, the "oversoul" or supreme spirit
- Svayam Bhagavan
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- Godhead (band)Godhead (band)Godhead, occasionally typeset as gODHEAD, is an American alternative rock/metal band from Washington, D.C.. They are most often credited with being the only band signed to musician Marilyn Manson's short-lived vanity label, Posthuman Records.-History:...
– American industrial rock band - Godhead (album)Godhead (album)Godhead was Lowlife's third album, released in 1989 in Scotland on Nightshift Records, an independent music record label. The LP had been recorded at Pet Sounds Studios in Glasgow, Scotland. Prior to the recording of the album, original guitarist Stuart Everest had been asked to leave the group by...
– album by Scottish dream pop band Lowlife - Love and Rockets (band)Love and Rockets (band)Love and Rockets were an English alternative rock band formed in 1985 by former Bauhaus members Daniel Ash , David J , and Kevin Haskins . Former Bauhaus vocalist Peter Murphy had embarked on a solo career after Bauhaus split in 1983...
– refers to Godhead in the 1998 song R.I.P. 20C - Krishna. The Supreme Personality of Godhead – a book by A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada