What is the difference between theology and Taoism?

Theology says that there is a creator and everything is created by the creator. Taoism believes that there is no creator, but everything is the embodiment of Tao.

Taoism was born in the Northern Song Dynasty, which is a society of moral crisis, belief crisis and national crisis. This social background breeds a general Taoist cultural mentality: to establish transcendental justice, to seek the meaning of existence, to gain rational freedom and to long for peace of mind.

The concept of theology did not originate from Christianity, but appeared in ancient Greek thought. There, the word "theology" refers to reciting and telling stories about God. In this way, theology is understood as myth, and the earliest evidence appears in the dialogue of Plato's National Character.

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Daoism: the traditional theory of Confucianism.

The History of Song Dynasty is the first biography of Taoism. Zhou Dunyi is the founder of Taoism. One of Zhou Dunyi's main contributions to Neo-Confucianism in the Song and Ming Dynasties was to restore the so-called "orthodoxy" that Confucianism had been interrupted for nearly a thousand years, boldly quoted Buddhism and Taoism, and created an important methodology of Neo-Confucianism.

Zhou Dunyi not only contributed many principles and methods to Neo-Confucianism, but also provided an internal transcendence for Neo-Confucianism. The "Lianxi pulse" initiated by Zhou Dunyi gives Confucianism a second life, which is of revolutionary significance.

Zhu is a Taoist master. For Zhu Zi, Taoism is the teaching pedigree of Taoism, and Taoism is the inheritance content of Taoism. The specific content of Taoism is a set of self-cultivation kung fu to realize inner saints, and it is also the "secret purpose" and "mental method" of governing the country and calming the world handed down by sages of past dynasties.

The reigning monarch, as the ruler, can realize the political ideal of the foreign king only by practicing self-cultivation according to this set of efforts. Therefore, Zhu's exposition of Tao and Tao contains the appeal for the political legislation of the incumbent monarch.

The above contents refer to Baidu Encyclopedia-Daoism.