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theism [thee-iz-zum] Noun 1. belief in one God as the creator of everything in the universe 2. belief in the existence of a God or gods [Greek theos god] theist nadj theistic adj theism 1. a belief in the existence of God or gods. See also: God and Gods
2. a belief in one god as creator and ruler of the universe, without rejection of special revelation. Cf. deism. — theism, n. ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
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| Therefore theism did never perturb states; for it makes men wary of themselves, as looking no further: and we see the times inclined to atheism (as the time of Augustus Caesar) were civil times. In the multiplex theism of certain Christian churches, But where it departs from the Calvinistic Christianity and exhibits him as the defier of Jove, it represents a state of mind which readily appears wherever the doctrine of Theism is taught in a crude, objective form, and which seems the self-defence of man against this untruth, namely a discontent with the believed fact that a God exists, and a feeling that the obligation of reverence is onerous. |
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