theism
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Theism, for instance, originally argued that contingent being is the result of a necessarily existing God who necessarily creates "the world as it actually is."
From Slate • Feb. 10, 2012
Theism concluded that God's purpose in creating contingent beings was that contingent beings would come to love God, a love that God recognized as a fundamental good.
From Slate • Feb. 10, 2012
And he, always rejecting a formal Theism and substituting evolution, proceeds to claim for his formula all that the Theist claimed for his.
From A Grammar of Freethought by Cohen, Chapman
But when we scrutinize Paine's positive Theism we find a distinctive nucleus forming within the nebulous mass of deistical speculations.
From The Life Of Thomas Paine, Vol. II. (of II) With A History of His Literary, Political and Religious Career in America France, and England by Conway, Moncure Daniel
The two volumes, published by William Blackwood and Son, from which this definition has been collected, form the Baird Lectures in favor of Theism for the years 1876 and 1877.
From Theological Essays by Bradlaugh, Charles
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