theism

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.

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

The next most dominant worldviews in the survey were biblical theism and moralistic therapeutic deism, with postmodernism and secular humanism tied after that as the life philosophies that Americans most often rely upon in making choices.

Beginning with a classic psychological explanation of theism – that humans construct the concept of God as a way to cope with and measure their pain – "God" goes on to list all the things that Lennon most decidedly does not believe in: the Bible, Jesus, Gita, Buddha, I-Ching, magic and so on.

And the Taliban’s victory in Afghanistan since Cupich wrote his essay reminds us that certain fervent forms of theism are implacably opposed to the tolerance and openness he preaches.