noun
- Plural of ditheist; people who believe in or advocate for ditheism, the belief in two equal and opposing divine powers or gods.
Usage: philosophical/religious term; rare in modern usage
Examples
- Ancient Zoroastrians were sometimes described as ditheists because they believed in Ahura Mazda and Angra Mainyu.
- Some scholars classify certain Gnostic sects as ditheists due to their belief in a good and evil creator.
- The ditheists of antiquity proposed that good and evil were embodied in separate divine beings.
- Medieval theologians debated whether ditheists could be reconciled with Christian monotheism.