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The above mentioned points clearly differentiate Jain theism from the conventional ones. Of course these points do not prove Jainism to be not theistic. This bring the Jain theism to a peculiar position where the Jainism appears to be quite theism but its theism becomes a latent or a hidden one. The effect of these developments has decidedly strengthened the case of Jain theism as a modified realistic theism. Such a theism which is, "discriminatingly critical realism, therefore, that accepts the phase of idealism and pragmatism that are rationally and empirically justified in the light of the present knowledge, is, the proper standpoint"6 and the Jain theism, thus, becomes apparent by itself.
16. Wright W.K., A Student's Philosophy of Religion, (1968), p. 463
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