Other religions/spiritual traditions that affirm Classical Theism?

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Are there any, if at all, spiritual or religious traditions other than the Christian ones that explicitly affirm Classical Theism?
 
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From the old online Jewish Encyclopedia:

Cabalistic Dualism.

The whole dualistic system of good and of evil powers, which goes back to Zoroastrianism and ultimately to old Chaldea, can be traced through Gnosticism; having influenced the cosmology of the ancient Cabala before it reached the medieval one.


http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/3878-cabala
 
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Hmmmm

What exactly does this mean? This doesn’t seem to be Classical Theism.

Maybe I was wrong in saying that Kabbalah was a Classical Theist tradition?
 
Are there any, if at all, spiritual or religious traditions other than the Christian ones that explicitly affirm Classical Theism?
Per Rutledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Classical theism’s ancestry includes Plato, Aristotle, Middle Platonism and Neoplatonism. It entered Judaism through Philo of Alexandria (§4), reaching its apogee there in Maimonides (§3). It entered Christianity as early as Irenaeus and Clement of Alexandria and became Christian orthodoxy as the Roman Empire wound down. Though more and more challenged after 1300, it remains orthodox. Classical theism filtered into Islam as early as al-Kindi (§§1–2). Al-Ghazali attacked it as the view of Islamic Aristotelians, and it suffered in Islamic orthodoxy’s successful reaction against Aristotle.
 
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