Pluralism, Polytheism, Bi-theism

One explanation for religious Pluralism is Polytheism, i. e. that there are multiple religions because there are multiple deities. However, the more prevalent account is that there are a plurality of perspectives on one and the same deity. The challenge to that explanation is to attribute to the deity a principle of active pluralization, without which a perspective is no more than an extrinsic distortion of the deity. Usually, though, such a principle tends to be lacking. In contrast, here, the Material Principle--Becoming-Diverse--is a fundamental pluralizing process, one which is complemented by the Formal Principle of the system--Becoming-the-Same. Hence, the theologization of the system leads to a classification of it as 'Bi-theistic'. One notable Bi-theistic precursor is Nietzsche's Dionysus-Apollo tandem of Birth of Tragedy, which, remains underdeveloped, because of the disappearance of the latter deity from most of his subsequent oeuvre. In any case, without a principle of active pluralization, religious Pluralism easily reduces to traditional Polytheism.