theism
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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
Colonialism and theism — both Christian and Muslim — in Alan Mikhail’s “God’s Shadow.”
From New York Times • Oct. 22, 2020
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
Materialism means simply the denial that the moral order is eternal, and the cutting off of ultimate hopes; theism means the affirmation of an eternal moral order and the letting loose of hope.
From The pragmatic theory of truth as developed by Peirce, James, and Dewey by Geyer, Delton Loring
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Power Suffix: -ism
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