In the late medieval period, Atsutane HIRATA developed Yumei shinpan shiso, which was ideologically influenced by the Last Judgment in Christianity and an idea of henotheism with Ame no Minakanushi as god of creation, and the development of the theories provided a way leading to the modern era.
近世後期には、平田篤胤が、キリスト教の最後の審判の観念の影響を受けた幽明審判思想や、アメノミナカヌシを創造神とする単一神教的な観念を展開するなど近代に連なる教理の展開を遂げた。