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Belief in something bigger than oneself
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theism
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Word definitions for theism in dictionaries
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 ...
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 ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1670s, "belief in a deity or deities," (as opposed to atheism ); by 1711 as "belief in one god" (as opposed to polytheism ); by 1714 as "belief in the existence of God as creator and ruler of the universe" (as opposed to deism ), the usual modern sense; ...
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.