In the course of the Vedic period, Shiva originally a ritual and conceptual outsider, yet a mighty god whose benevolent aspects were readily emphasized gradually gained access to the circle of prominent gods who preside over various spheres of human interest.
Later, as he shook hands with the governor of Gipuzkoa province in the Spanish Basque country, Martín Garitano, Gudmundsson presented him with a flag featuring a sword inside a circle of the gods.
According to Muʿtazilite theologians, then, the circle of agents includes God and humanity: God creates and conserves atoms and accidents.
In sum, whereas Muʿtazilite theologians appeal to divine justice to show that the circle of agents includes God and humanity, al-Ashʿarī and his followers appeal to divine omnipotence to limit agency to God alone.
In the depiction of natural happenings, plant, animal, and human forms may blend into one another, as in the symbolic circle of the Mesopotamian god Tammuz in which the tree of life is combined with figures of fertile wild and domestic animals and the figure of a shepherd.
Driving them out is an explosive spectacle of little images and drugs radiating from a small circle like the eye of God.
Around him dance sea nymphs and sea stags, while in the outer circle Bacchus, god of wine and giver of ecstasy, eats grapes and holds his staff, accompanied by hedonistic friends.
There was, nevertheless, another very different approach — well established within latitudinarian and Newtonian theological circles — for proving the existence of God.
In the image, the attributes of God are depicted as circles, and these circles are connected by "branches" that together depict the "tree of life".
In Jewish and Muslim theological circles where the unity or oneness of God was understood to imply simplicity - that God contains no composition of any kind, not even distinct essential attributes - it was often urged that the trinitarian doctrine is incompatible with God's unity.
