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Belief in something bigger than oneself
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theism
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Theism \The"ism\, n. [From Gr. ? God; probably akin to ? to pray for, ? spoken by God, decreed: cf. F. th['e]isme. Cf. Enthusiasm , Pantheon , Theology .] The belief or acknowledgment of the existence of a God, as opposed to atheism , pantheism , or ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ He then only argues that theism is superfluous. ▪ In all these respects, materialism functions just like theism , as one competing metaphysical scheme amongst others. ▪ It is clear, then, that theism is falsifiable. ▪ It should ...
Wikipedia
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Theism , in the field of comparative religion , is the belief in the existence of deities . In popular parlance, the term theism often describes the classical conception of god(s) that is found in the monotheistic and polytheistic religions. The term theism ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. 1 (context belief system English) Belief in the existence of at least one deity. 2 (context belief system English) Belief in the existence of a personal creator god, goddess, gods and/or goddesses present and active in the governance and ...
Usage examples of theism.
Walker, for example, in his extremely suggestive Spiritual Monism and Christian Theism.
Walker, for example, in his extremely suggestive work on Monism and Christian Theism.
It is remarkable, that the principles of religion have a kind of flux and reflux in the human mind, and that men have a natural tendency to rise from idolatry to theism, and to sink again from theism into idolatry.
Hebrew Theism itself became involved in symbolism and image-worship, to which all religions ever tend.
Part XII of the Dialogues in which Philo reduces the conflict between atheism and theism to a verbal dispute.
Whichever side of this dilemma we take, it must appear impossible, that theism could, from reasoning, have been the primary religion of human race, and have afterwards, by its corruption, given birth to polytheism and to all the various superstitions of the heathen world.
The philosophy of absolute idealism, so vigorously represented both in Scotland and America to-day, has to struggle with this difficulty quite as much as scholastic theism struggled in its time.