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Theistic

Theistic \The*is"tic\, Theistical \The*is"tic*al\, a. Of or pertaining to theism, or a theist; according to the doctrine of theists.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
theistic

1780, from theist + -ic. Related: Theistical (1690s); theistically.

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theistic

a. of or relating to theism

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theistic

adj. of or relating to theism [syn: theist, theistical]

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Usage examples of "theistic".

Martians with some crackerjack reasons why theistic revelation is the case?

The intensely theistic character of the philosophy of Coleridge is rooted and grounded in the Personal and the Spiritual, and not in the least in the Impersonal and the Natural.

The human will stands unshaken before the ill winds of theistic persecution.

Adam had recruited heavily among the theistic minority in the system, and he promoted new theologies to forge his disparate followers into a kind of unity.

After some weeks I received a note from Cass, telling me that he was trying to write his book, but that the terrestrial flames were constantly attempting to convert him to their theistic religion.

I enter loops, linked regulatory patterns more ingenious than theistic design.

If this is the case, are they prevented from seeing this empirical truth as a result of their commitment to a theistic ideology?

As theistic fundamentalists view the history of their tradition as being guided by the hand of God, so do the proponents of scientism see the history of science as being led by the hand of Nature.

In a theistic philosophy, the beginning of religion sets the boundary to the philosophic endeavor.

And in exactly this sense he emphasised a certain dignity in Man, which was sometimes rather swallowed up in the purely theistic generalisations about God.

The origin of animal life is explained in various ways by the so-called theistic evolutionists.

For our present consideration, we need not distinguish between atheistic and theistic evolution, as the latter is subject to the fundamental objections urged against evolution in general, and is, like atheistic evolution, without a single fact to support it and in direct contradiction of all that is known of the laws in operation now, and as far back as knowledge penetrates.

I have examined, and will discuss more fully in the next chapter, the theistic side of this plea.

The Finite is the Infinite, or, to use theistic language, the World is God, in the sense that all the world is and contains is the form in which God, at each successive moment, exists.

I received a note from Cass, telling me that he was trying to write his book, but that the terrestrial flames were constantly attempting to convert him to their theistic religion.