theism

Example Sentences

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References to the Creator and Nature’s God in the Declaration reflect a general theism that could be acceptable to Christians, Unitarians, deists and others.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 17, 2024

Many who regard theism as a backward-looking social force might usefully consider how each of these holidays contains the seeds of rebellion.

From Washington Post • Apr. 17, 2022

Why not deism instead of theism, or pantheism instead of either?

From New York Times • Aug. 14, 2021

I represented the agnostic position and David Lahti, a biologist and philosopher at the City University of New York, a position more friendly to theism.

From Scientific American • May 19, 2019

He adopted and advocated the utilitarian and necessitarian theory of morals, and wrote of ordinary theism and religion, as arising from personification of unknown causes, for general or special phenomena.

From Heresy: Its Utility And Morality A Plea And A Justification by Bradlaugh, Charles