demiurgic

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Adam, perhaps the novel’s only personable creation, is a kind of demiurgic naïf, somewhere between a wide-eyed ingénue and an Enlightenment philosophe.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 15, 2019

According to Tolkien scholar John Garth, the story helps to establish “parameters of Tolkien’s world, enshrining aspects of good and evil in faery races and demiurgic beings who are locked in perpetual conflict.”

From The Verge • Aug. 1, 2018

And even those who are inclined to adopt it do also believe in the existence of a long period between the beginning and the demiurgic days.

From The Religion of Geology and Its Connected Sciences by Hitchcock, Edward

Such a man is demiurgic, for he puts down a hand on action through the sky.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 76, February, 1864 by Various

Lastly, man is occasionally represented as having been framed out of a piece of the body of the Creator, or made by some demiurgic potter out of clay.

From Myth, Ritual and Religion — Volume 1 by Lang, Andrew