In ancient religion and philosophy, particularly in Neoplatonism, a single deity or divine unity; a monad representing ultimate divine reality.
From Greek henas (one, singular), related to heis (one). The term was developed by Neoplatonic philosophers to describe the transcendent, unified source of all being beyond multiplicity.
The concept of 'henad' shaped medieval Christian theology profoundly—when theologians debated how God could be both singular and three (the Trinity), they were essentially grappling with Neoplatonic ideas about divine unity and multiplicity.
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