How To Use Theistic In A Sentence

Akhenaton and Nefertiti: Sun and Shadow of the Pharaohs" exhibits artifacts documenting the reign of Egyptian King Akhenaten and his wife Nefertiti (14th century B.C.), the first monotheistic rulers. Time Off Europe Calendar
Organized religion is a hijacker of reason, rationality, intelligence and logic and is hostile to spiritual freedom, secular and atheistic thoughts. Dr T.P.Chia
But, James, isn't the title indicative of "right" interpretation according to monotheistic understanding in opposition to Trinitarian understanding? and human moral development? Gratitude Mingled with Theological Concern
Holiness answers audience questions addressing the situation of Tibet, goal of bodhicitta, nature of enlightened mind, future of the Dalai Lama institution, compatibility of Buddhist practices with theistic faith, universal purpose of human life, practice of patience towards harm-doers, subtle energy and mind, and the Heart Sutra mantra. Nagarjuna's Bodhichitta Commentary
It is a dazzling display of luminous atoms, a kind of pantheistic evocation. The French Impressionists (1860-1900)

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Some shook with superstitious dread; others, driven to atheistical despair, with horrible execrations, again strove to force a passage through the doors. The Scottish Chiefs
It depends whether their religion is totemistic, pantheistic or monotheistic, surely.
Such a proposal is distinct from pantheistic notions which equate God with the natural world, because D'Espagnat relegates the natural world - the world of space, time and matter - to what Kant referred to as the 'phenomenal' world, the world produced by the modus operandi of our minds upon the noumenal world. Archive 2009-03-01
Article 18 protects theistic, non-theistic and atheistic beliefs, as well as the right not to profess any religion or belief.
That would be the option of theistic evolution, which to me is not a logical choice because it requires elements of faith that simply don't comport with science and logic.
While Buddhism is deemed nontheistic, the Vedas are regarded as polytheistic, and the Bible is monotheistic, we have seen that the cosmogonies of Vajrayana Buddhism, Vedanta, and Neoplatonic Christianity have so much in common that they could almost be regarded as varying interpretations of a single theory. C for Confusion!
The Bible teaches that mankind was originally monotheistic.
The court's reasoning was that the posting of the commandments in the Kentucky courthouses constituted an expression of monotheistic religion but not so in Texas, where the commandments were seen as having more of a secular "educational" purpose. Commandments removed from Va. school system
Lest any misunderstanding should remain - and it is likely that I have sometimes used incautious language in presenting the theistic case - I must stress the following points.
Some were preoccupied with God, others were atheistic to the core.
This makes Hinduism unique in the sense that it is a monotheistic religion with a pantheon of manifested forms of God.
These sculptural elements, which have polytheistic titles like "Purging Cyclops Being" and "Oval Tree Double Owls Oceania," are a little too friendly and puppetlike to stir the psyche. NYT > Home Page
As far as I know, none but the votaries of monotheistic, that is to say, Jewish religions, look upon suicide as a crime. Studies in Pessimism
It gives us a measure of the indulgent sympathy and religious tolerance which prevailed in this Evangelical home, that the parents should have unhesitatingly supplied the boy of fourteen, at some cost of time and trouble, with all the accessible writings of the "atheistical" poet, and with those of his presumably like-minded friend Keats as well. Robert Browning
Well, let me tell you, I have been in very genteel society, without feeling any thing so human, so catholic, so pantheistical, (in the right sense,) as I did in making one of that queer company. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 5, May, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
As far as I can see, it is only the followers of monotheistic, that is of Jewish, religions that regard suicide as a crime. Essays of Schopenhauer
When I grew up the idea of atheistic or non-theistic way of thinking wasn't even an option. Some American Atheists Celebrate Their Own Holiday
The panentheistic God of the orthodox and/or the open theists? Alice In Wonderland official trailer
As I've said before (I think, but I'm too lazy to check), I'd prefer "nontheistic" to Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
Most leaders of evolutionary thought were strongly atheistic.
Thus it only remains to treat in general of the question as to the reconcilableness of the idea of the origin of species through evolution, through gradual development, _in general_ with a theistic view of the world. The Theories of Darwin and Their Relation to Philosophy, Religion, and Morality
To the non-theistic scientist, the objective universe is what it is, and the question of how it got that way is just one more thing to investigate.
Perhaps you would prefer to label it 'panentheistic'. Pantheism
It is an open question, however, when such declarations are to be taken as identity assertions, with pantheistic or acosmic intentions, and when they are perhaps hyperbolic variations on descriptions of union-type experiences. Mysticism
Another alternative that I find very attractive is some strain of the vitalist/idealist/panpsychist/panentheistic worldview. Another Chink in a Worldview's Armor?
Some of the many positions on creationism include progressive, deistic, theistic, ex nihilo, and directive creationism.
Psalm 82: 8, the most 'polytheistic' of passages in the Hebrew Bible, the idea of a real kinship of nature between 'the Most High' and his 'sons', the gods, is already contradicted by the former's judgment that the latter 'will die like humans' (Ps. 82: 7). Rightly Dividing the Word of Truth
Within Paganism, I think that there's a misconception that being pantheistic equals the absence of wrong.
Organized religion is a hijacker of reason, rationality, intelligence and logic and is hostile to spiritual freedom, secular and atheistic thoughts. Dr T.P.Chia
Gradually, the people began to adopt polytheistic ideas, and worship spirits and many different gods.
The monotheistic order required that the feminine should be barred from the sphere of power, which coincided with the sacred.
It has been a failure of all us atheistical Darwinists intent on dragging the world, kicking and screaming, into the 1860s, and out of the clutches of the religion-be-deviled proudly ignorant dark-age-living creationists. David Horton: And then god said, "Let there ... oh, you already have life"
Aside from my weak lapse into theistic belief (which I confess is irrational and illogical), what have I written so far that would you disagree with, and why? Contentment
There are non-theistic explanations for the origins of individual rights.
However, the acceptance of ditheism does not fit in with the monotheistic concept of God and the Devil.
Islam is a monotheistic Abrahamic religion originating with the teachings of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, a seventh century Arab religious and political figure.
You, for instance, have a tendency to capitalize 'Life,' as if in some kind of panentheistic sense of i+d. And Now For The Rest of the Story
Or an ungodly witness is one that profanely and atheistically witnesses against religion and godliness, whose instructions seduce from the words of knowledge (v. 27); such a one scorns judgment, laughs at the terrors of the Lord, mocks at that fear, Job xv. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
The three monotheistic religions are from that area. Houston Chronicle
Islam by contrast did present such an immediate monotheistic God who superintended all human endeavors.
And as far as Avatar: saw it in 3-D, was wowed by the special effects, thought the movie itself story, acting, directing, etc. was pretty average, wasn’t too bothered by the so-called pantheistic elements in it – it was just science fiction to me. My Kindle Got Run Over by a Car at Ray Fowler .org
They were also troubled by what many saw as the antisupernaturalistic and antitheistic bent of science: could one really believe in the New Testament world of spirits and miracles in the era of the steam engine and ocean liner? Warranted Christian Belief
In judeo - christianity and most monotheistic religions, objects can represent a view of the cosmos.
Religious belief is increasingly losing its attraction in the minds of the average people. The further decline of religion in the western world seems unavoidable. France is the most atheistic nation (32%), followed by Germany(20%), great Britain and the United States (13%). In 2010. Dr T.P.Chia
We present this as a specimen of our most recent antitheistic logic. Theism: The Witness of Reason and Nature to an All-Wise and Beneficent Creator.
But they have common antecedents in Greek and Roman civilisation and monotheistic Christianity.
And Dembski 1998b, p 20 rejects theistic evolutionism, which is the thesis that God used the evolutionary process to produce organisms and their adaptive features. Sobering thoughts on ID - The Panda's Thumb
On closer inspection, the Sixth Meditation passage does not put forward a naturalistic solution, but a theistic solution.
I rail at the theistic credulity of Voltaire, the amoristic superstition of Shelley, the revival of tribal soothsaying and idolatrous rites which Huxley called Science and mistook for an advance on the Pentateuch, no less than at the welter of ecclesiastical and professional humbug which saves the face of the stupid system of violence and robbery which we call Law and Industry. Epistle Dedicatory
Nontheistic religions such as secular humanism, atheism, agnosticism and scientism are quite happy with science that seeks to remove any "supernatural" influence from its explanations.
Williams also criticized the Governor for sitting cross-legged with a "dot on his forehead," and described the ceremony as "polytheistic. Mike Ghouse: Senator Williams' Remarks Offended Hindus
The great museums of the world bear witness to the extensive impact of monotheistic spirituality upon human civilization.
Definitely worth watching, whether to enjoy the rich visuals of Hellenic Egypt, to savor the ever-wonderful storytelling of Alejandro Amenábar, to bask in the feminism of the world’s first-known female mathematician and astronomer and philosopher, to stick it to the Christian man by enjoying a world where pagans held power and Christians were the rioting mob, or to revel in the antitheistic message of a time when violence ruled all religions—just like today. Agora | Mind on Fire
It was a nontheistic, atheistic religion, a religion of man and society.
Buddhism is a non-theistic religion that claims that suffering is unavoidable, and that the root of suffering is attachment, greed and desire.
Of course, the scoundrels using “unguided” as a codeword for “atheistic” even “antitheistic” for political purposes are a different story. ACLU: America's intellectual terrorists? - The Panda's Thumb
The reader will meet a veritable galaxy of rakes, atheistic clergy, philanthropic snobs, scholars, apothecaries and antiquarians in this elegant, witty, informative and, in true Horatian style, entertaining book.
As I see it, opposition to theocracy and advocacy of a non-theistic worldview are two separate goals.
And as I pointed out, your position effectively drains the terms "theistic evolutionist" and "creationist" of all meaning, such that every theist is both a "theistic evolutionist" and a "creationist" at the same time. Behe and Theistic Evolution
Japanese pattern, and while the ivy that covered the Gothic ceiling trailed long tendrils of the palest and most delicate green, each leaf glossed as if it had been varnished, this unheroic-hero, this pantheistic-devotee, this heathenized-Christian, this half-happy-go-lucky æthestic Bohemian, lay upon his pillow, the incarnation of absolute repose. In the Footprints of the Padres
Similar to ditheism, moral dualism does not in any way imply that the religion in question is not monist or monotheistic.
In the Mutazalite tradition of Islam there was also a tendency to slide towards emanationism and pantheism, as a result of endorsing the pantheistic necessitarianism of Aristotle.
Environmental factors also applied, and humans were not naturally monotheistic. Times, Sunday Times
The names of nearly 2.5 million of the fallen are inscribed here, all of whom are considered to be divine spirits worshiped under Japan's pantheistic Shinto religion.
Any sort of naturalism was decried as an attack on theistic belief.
(Granted, there are many other strands in the tapestry of religion, and granted, I've entirely overlooked the polytheistic and nontheistic religions, such as Hinduism and some forms of Buddhism, but in that short list above, we encompass more than half the world's population, and well over half its believers.) Clay Farris Naff: Can Evolution Tell Us What God Wants?
The argument is nonetheless a weak reed on which to rest the theistic thesis.
Although Buddhism does not assert God as an individual being and is therefore sometimes characterized as atheistic, it is officially recognized because of its assertion of Adibuddha. Current Situation of Buddhism in the World
In some theistic monism thought the principal of kenosis is in play where God is self-limiting with respect to life. Courting the Theists
This kind of non-critical acceptance of a belief system is especially a feature of the three monotheistic religions.
That may be true, but something in it smacks of theistic necessitarianism not mention anthropological historical determinism. The essential "I"
In doing so Dawkins begs some very pertinent questions showing that he, like his theistic counterparts, is unable to present a comprehensive and coherent account running from A to Z. 2009 May - Telic Thoughts
If these cosmogonies are indeed based upon valid introspective knowledge, then there may some plausibility to the claims of many contemplatives throughout the world that introspective inquiry can lead to knowledge, not only of the ultimate ground of being, but of the fundamental laws of nature as well. -- via Is Buddhism Really Nontheistic? by B. Archive 2007-09-01
Referencing the Stoics is not therefore, as far as the Elders of Sodom are concerned, a good foundation for an argument that one's views were born of atheistic rationalism rather than religious hokum. Stoicism, Sophistry and Sodomy
This situation applies to much of Europe, in particular in Central and Northern Europe, where no more than half of the residents in those lands profess belief in a transcendent, personal and monotheistically-conceived deity. "Postchristianity" and the Future of Unitarian Universalism in North America
A.H. Armstrong says the term "pantheistic" is a "large, vague term of theological abuse," (Armstrong 1976: 187). Pantheism
Thus, from the Assyrian researches as well as from other sources, it has come to be acknowledged by the most eminent scholars at the leading seats of Christian learning that the accounts of creation with which for nearly two thousand years all scientific discoveries have had to be "reconciled" -- the accounts which blocked the way of Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and Laplace -- were simply transcribed or evolved from a mass of myths and legends largely derived by the Hebrews from their ancient relations with Chaldea, rewrought in a monotheistic sense, imperfectly welded together, and then thrown into poetic forms in the sacred books which we have inherited. A History of the warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom
There is Christianity, which, by revealing the truth, has limited the license of human reason; there is that human reason which resists revelation as a bondage -- which insists upon being atheistical, or polytheistical, or pantheistical -- which looks upon the requirements of obedience, justice, truth, and purity, as limitations of human freedom. Lothair
Certainly I agree with you that my views are not at all necessarily atheistical. Behe
It has been taken up by other monotheistic religions. Times, Sunday Times
Expect a whole new language for this kind of thing including their own label 'nontheistic'. SA Latest News
The shortcomings of a monotheistic religion become evident at such times of national crisis. Times, Sunday Times
You know all those deities -- the gods and goddesses that cause outsiders to think Hinduism is polytheistic? Philip Goldberg: Colbert: Try Hinduism For Lent
For Newton there had once been a true uncorrupted monotheistic religion, in which the frame of the world had been studied, as he believed it should, as the true temple of a living God.
Religious belief is increasingly losing its attraction in the minds of the average people. The further decline of religion in the western world seems unavoidable. France is the most atheistic nation (32%), followed by Germany(20%), great Britain and the United States (13%). In 2010. Dr T.P.Chia
Islam is a monotheistic Abrahamic religion originating with the teachings of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, a seventh century Arab religious and political figure.
As I grew up with an atheistic education, the idea of a fairy tale god never dawned on me.
Truly polytheistic Europagan groups (such as the druids) are much smaller, despite the fact that they are often older. Emasculation not required at SF Novelists
Clearly Paul uses this as a connecting platform, without accepting a panentheistic/polytheistic/pluralist paradigm, as one can clearly glean by the immediate and larger context of Acts. Sunday School: Genesis 1:1-2:3
He then preached against their pantheistic idolatries and urged them to repent.
This is a potential defeater for my being rational in accepting theistic belief.
Everywhere there was a strong reaction against what was called the atheistical and anarchical philosophy of the eighteenth century. Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 3
Although accused of pantheism by their contemporaries, their systems can be identified as panentheistic because they understood God in various ways as including the world rather than being the world and because they used a dialectical method. Panentheism
Hence, the hitherto morally ambivalent or neutral word daimon acquires an almost exclusively evil connotation in the monotheistic context. DEMONOLOGY
As they aim to be monotheistic, each variant of this approach has a unique way of undercutting the inference from three divine persons to tritheism. Trinity
Some modern-day pagans are polytheistic, meaning they believe in many gods; some are monotheistic (one god); and others are pantheists, or they believe that God is everything and everything is God, according to Web sites devoted to the subject. Kentucky.com: Homepage
They are actually advancing the non-theistic religion of secular humanism.
In general they inclined to what is called the pantheistic explanation of the universe. Outlines of the Earth's History A Popular Study in Physiography
Where is now the enthusiastic Gironde, where the volcanic mountain, the fiery, and eloquent Mirabeau, the wily Brissot, the atheistic Lequinios, the remorseless Marat, the bloody St. Just, and the chief of the deplumed and fallen legions of equality? The Stranger in France or, a Tour from Devonshire to Paris Illustrated by Engravings in Aqua Tint of Sketches Taken on the Spot.
For the sake of truth, I must add that the fanatical enormities perpetrated in the name of religion are only to be put down to the adherents of monotheistic creeds, that is, the Jewish faith and its two branches, Christianity and Islamism. Religion
Some Indologists labeled the Hinduism they encountered polytheistic; others even coined new terms, like henotheism, to describe this baffling array of spiritual traditions.
In theological terms, D'Espagnat's epistemological structural realism then enables him to advocate a pantheistic, noumenal concept of God. Archive 2009-03-01
There is another way to view the relation of theism and science apart from a panentheistic harmonization.
A nation addicted to fucking while avoiding the results of that fucking, with latex interference, early term abortion, anything to add to selfishness and serving the Almighty ME-ISM of the incredibly autotheistic female/male ID worshipping, slovenly, porcine icon. The Stealing Of AmericaThrough Sadism, Cowardice and Bullying
How did Christianity become mixed with polytheistic beliefs?
Since Christians maintained that they were nonetheless monotheistic, that is, they adhered to the Shema—the great confession of Judaism, “Hear O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is One”—the conclusion became inescapable. The Jesus Dynasty
He riles theistic evolutionists, because he exposes their surrender to Darwinian naturalism.
It's bad enough that this resolution is a waste of precious legislative time, but the motto it recommends posting on public buildings is in direct opposition to our national tradition of secular governance and is a slap in the face to the many nontheistic Americans who object to government endorsement of religion. Roy Speckhardt: Choosing Faith Over Freedom
It was first thought that the Olmecs were monotheistic, but it is now known that they were polytheists.
Religious belief is increasingly losing its attraction in the minds of the average people. The further decline of religion in the western world seems unavoidable. France is the most atheistic nation (32%), followed by Germany(20%), great Britain and the United States (13%). In 2010. Dr T.P.Chia
Its professed objective is not to debunk religion, and Wade tries hard to avoid the antitheistic materialism of high-profile Darwinian faith-debunkers such as Daniel Dennett, Richard Dawkins, and Jerry Coyne. Commonweal Magazine
Before 1750, this latter current played the chief role in diffusing materialist, atheistic and antiscriptural ideas. The Times Literary Supplement
It stands to reason that the essence of this union by love consists neither in a natural union with Jesus analogous to that between soul and body, nor in a hypostatic union of the soul with the Person of the Word, nor finally in a pantheistical deification of the communicant, but simply in a moral but wonderful union with Christ by the bond of the most ardent charity. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy
How the theistic moral life culminates in devotional life will be discussed in this book.
The panentheistic view, which is pretty standard in modern theology is that God's not completely remote from the world and completely transcendent, but nor is the sacred completely absorbed into the world.
Logically, this favors (but does not require) non-theistic religions and belief systems.
There was a polytheistic religion, with a supreme god to whom the king had a specially intimate relation.
The final development in Indian religious thinking, in a time just before Buddhism, was that of monotheistic belief.
During his study of the sastras he became convinced about the inherent weakness in the Advaita philosophy and developed a keen desire to revive the theistic science of Vedas with his own thorough reinterpretation of the texts.
Religious belief is increasingly losing its attraction in the minds of the average people. The further decline of religion in the western world seems unavoidable. France is the most atheistic nation (32%), followed by Germany(20%), great Britain and the United States (13%). In 2010. Dr T.P.Chia
Monotheistic religions do not have a good record of interacting with tribal cultures. Times, Sunday Times
Symbolism of the Templars misunderstood and deemed pantheistical, 818-l. Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry
Nonetheless, most models of the Trinity that have been proposed and defended have leaned in modalist or tritheistic directions.
Pantheism is a theory of spiritual culture, that our individuality is ours only to merge it in His, although on this line, the Christian soon parts company with the Indian pantheistic devotee, who seeks to _merge_ his consciousness in God, not to train himself into active sonship. New Ideas in India During the Nineteenth Century A Study of Social, Political, and Religious Developments
The atheistic tradition goes back a long way.
And I thought that free thinking involved examining the claims for differing world views, whether religious or atheistical, evaluating those views and reaching a conclusion which is not determined in advance by prejudice. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
Both studied mankind, but while Teilhard sought to situate mankind within the broad sweep of cosmogenesis - the evolution of the cosmos from its initiation - and from a religious perspective, Hartmann studied mankind at much closer quarters and from an atheistic perspective. Max Scheler and Nicolai Hartmann
The Martian considers the theistic argument that it would be impossible to have an orderly universe merely resulting from the inherent properties of natural forces, and that "directivity" is necessary to keep the universe on its present track. The Necessity of Atheism
It provided Jews with a direct approach to God, a notion regarded as heretical and pantheistic by Orthodox Judaism.
By being many, these Goddesses avoid a monotheistically chauvinistic view of the feminine.
Our contemporary mind having once for all grasped the possibility of a more intimate _Weltanschauung_, the only opinions quite worthy of arresting our attention will fall within the general scope of what may roughly be called the pantheistic field of vision, the vision of God as the indwelling divine rather than the external creator, and of human life as part and parcel of that deep reality. A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy
Some of our sources are Shiites and Sunnis from non-Wahhabi traditions -- people condemned as "polytheistic" or "deviant" or "bad" in these texts -- others are simply frustrated that these books do so little to prepare young students for the modern world. This is a Saudi textbook. (After the intolerance was removed.)
To write any kind of epic at all might very well seem to be embracing an inappropriately sensual paganism at the expense of the higher discipline of good, old-fashioned monotheistic Christianity.
My university education had transformed me into a theistic evolutionist, one who believed that God intended the Genesis account of creation to be an allegory picturing the total evolution of the cosmos.
As for soul, purpose and morality, I defined these in my paper, used them in a very specific (and non-theistic) manner, discuss them at length in my book, and show precisely how material processes produced such nonmaterial entities.
We are, in part, natural beings, but we alone among the animals are in some ways alienated from the natural world in which we live. Fundamentalist creationism and rigidly atheistic evolutionism are both pretty implausible.
Behind these lay another debate between equally traditional views of collectivism v. individual initiative and between atheistic materialism and the belief that the world was created by God.
Overall, based on my experience in both camps (theistic and non-theistic), I venture to claim that activists of either breed have a greater tendency to be "religious" rather than non-activists.
The monotheistic order required that the feminine should be barred from the sphere of power, which coincided with the sacred.
The naturalistic conclusion is antagonistic to theistic religion and leads to non-theistic belief systems, laws, morals and ethics that sharply conflict with those derived from the major religions of the world.
Putin, ex-KGB head, now leader of an atheistic evil empire, probably talks to himself in Russian,and Biden was roughly translating, using a euphemism suiting for the wsj. The Volokh Conspiracy » Jesus Christ!
My personal choice is faith in God -- not the anthropomorphic God of Western religion, but a panentheistic faith in a supreme power that is at the same time immanent (present) and transcendent, and that is the unity of all life expressed in an infinite variety of ways, moving toward its own realization in that unity being re-established. Ed Gurowitz, Ph.D.: Belief Is Easy, But Faith Takes Discipline
But the reasons brought to bear against suicide by the priests of monotheistic, that is of Jewish religions, and by those philosophers who adapt themselves to it, are weak sophisms easily contradicted. 20 Hume has furnished the most thorough refutation of them in his Essay on Suicide, which did not appear until after his death, and was immediately suppressed by the shameful bigotry and gross ecclesiastical tyranny existing in Essays of Schopenhauer
She fears that he has lost his faith to trendy, atheistic ideas.
Leaving aside the inevitable demonising of the military, large corporations and industry, the lionising of noble savages in ecstatic pantheistic harmony with their computer game vegetation – all of which are irritating enough in their own right – the dialogue was so mind-numbingly trite, it make Titanic look like Proust. James Cameron, Avatar Aeolist « Anglican Samizdat
It was a collection of antitheistic discourses; the titles, which were startling to the eye, sufficiently indicated the scope and quality of the matter. Thyrza
And you’d be hard pressed to claim that half the world’s population live in monotheistic cultures even now. FINAL ANSWERS • by Nick Allen
Therefore, theistic evolution which assumes divine direction to achieve divinely ordained goals is an entirely different and incompatible theory.
It has outwardly Shi"ite Islamic elements, but is really a Shamanic-Pantheistic faith.
The followers of Kant have selected now one now another doctrine from his ethics and combined therewith various pantheistical systems. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy
There is no need to exaggerate the part played in the creation of Bolshevism and in the actual bringing about of the Russian Revolution, by these international and for the most part atheistical Jews. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
I do not believe in the panentheistic idea that the creation is within God as a present reality, but I do believe in panentheism as an eschatological destiny.
Organized religion is a hijacker of reason, rationality, intelligence and logic and is hostile to spiritual freedom, secular and atheistic thoughts. Dr T.P.Chia
On the other side, progressive theologians, especially those involved in interreligious dialogue, are well prepared to recognize the force of nontheistic options because of their engagements with East and South Asian religious traditions (Daoism, Buddhism, Advaita Vedānta) that are not interested in positing a supreme being. John Thatamanil: Beyond the Theism/Atheism Divide: A Plea for Humility
Then we needed to desacralize the world, which we did through religious developments, as paradoxically we saved religion by sending the gods into the heavens while leaving the earth “atheistic” and mechanical in the doing. Film review by Charles G. Lambdin: Creationism by Any Other Name - The Panda's Thumb
Therapists should of course avoid a spiritual rationale with clients disinclined toward a theistic worldview.
Obviously, supporting only holistic programs grounded in theistic assumptions would constitute discrimination against non-theistic worldviews.
It points us to the theistic hypothesis rather than to the necessity hypothesis.
The three monotheistic religions with the most followers are Christianity, Judaism and Islam.
To conjure pantheistic fantasies from this cell which spelled the end of his recent hopes was a crass bit of innocence. DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
The ultimate evolutionary victory, on the theistic hypothesis, does not go to the most ruthless exterminators and most fecund replicators.
The theistic evolutionist properly so-called affirms this, but instead of speaking of "purposeless natural processes" speaks of God's skill in designing and maintaining a world which has within itself the capacities to develop the diversity of life (e.g. Howard Van Till of Calvin College). Reasons to Believe -
Low mysticism is immanent, relies on a sort of pantheistic organicism; high mysticism is transcendent, depending on gods / God that is beyond.
Islam is world's great monotheistic religions.
If there were no limitations for using God-texts about intermediaries we certainly should have many clear quotations of God-passages applied to intermediaries - including the divine name and otherwise monotheistically coloured content. HANDS Across the Godhead?
In light of the transparently humanist program of the tempietti — a Christian chapel juxtaposed with "polytheistic" muses — the phrase "Regna Poly" stands out, especially considering the soon-to-be-published Hypnerotomachia poliphilo, a work dedicated to Guidobaldo da Montefeltro. back Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
Within a piece of relatively popular literature, an author could speak of supernatural causes both monotheistically and polytheistically.
There would be monotheistic Jews as well as former worshipers of pagan deities.
In pantheistic systems there is no source for the moral standards that karma enforces.
We both learned from that experience that hormones originally thought to act monotheistically actually are pleiotropic agents; i.e., they can do many different things by separate routes. Martin Rodbell - Autobiography
The emperor had begun to think polytheistic cult a veneration of evil spirits and therefore perhaps a danger to his realm.
The theistic hypothesis postulates one necessarily actual reality, the mind that conceives all possibilities.
It may also be here remarked, as an undoubted evidence of the corruptness of the state, that, although there are civil laws presently in being, which declare the maintaining of antitrinitarian, atheistical principles, to be not only criminal, but capital; yet the civil powers in the nation have not so much regard to Act, Declaration, & Testimony for the Whole of our Covenanted Reformation, as Attained to, and Established in Britain and Ireland; Particularly Betwixt the Years 1638 and 1649, Inclusive
So how has atheistic Maoism found such a hospitable environment here?
Alone among the great monotheistic faiths, Catholicism is a lover rather than a breaker of icons.
The epithet post-dates the death of Akhenaten, who kept his monotheistic faith until the end.
Organized religion is a hijacker of reason, rationality, intelligence and logic and is hostile to spiritual freedom, secular and atheistic thoughts. Dr T.P.Chia
In pantheistic passages he is what the later remodeller makes him. The Religions of India Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris Jastrow
Most religions are theistic.
Jewish theological college, that this idea of a pure Jewish religion, the pure monotheistic idea, must be held unshakenly and without any change or any concession. The Menorah Journal, Volume 1, 1915
Here the Parthians had once gloried and drunk deep in the pantheistic heart of their empire. SOMEWHERE EAST OF LIFE
Only then, in the anarchy that ensues, will our atheistical plan of World Government have any chance of success. Matthew Yglesias » Ungovernable America
Their confidence in the efficiency of natural process evolution exceeds even that of the most ardent, nontheistic evolutionists.
In terms of spiritual doctrine and institutional practice, the theistic Church, which still refuses to ordain women and attributes blame for the fall of humankind to the actions of Eve, was sharply distinct from the doctrinally omnivorous Farmies, who invested midwives with hierophantic authority and attributed to neither sex responsibility for the decline of humankind into ignorance of Spirit. Manhood in the Age of Aquarius: Masculinity in Two Countercultural Communities, 196583
They were the rational, atheistic two, lost to the evangelical religion of their father.
It is interesting that in animist, totemistic and polytheistic belief systems there are deities and powers associated with the branches of the tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. The Two Trees
life-stuff," and other hylotheistic and purely hypothetical formulæ, with which the average mind has been well-nigh crazed for the last fifteen or twenty years. Life: Its True Genesis
Casaubon was not alone in his criticisms of the new experimental philosophy for its atheistical tendencies.
I suppose I am formally polytheistic, philosophically pantheistic, and intellectually agnostic (or maybe I would call myself a autotheist in the sense of believing that the gods are part of the self), yet I spend an hour every day studying subjects related to my religion (history, anthropology, etc). The Volokh Conspiracy » Considering a Candidate’s Religion:
I continued in my atheistic way of life: I did not attend church; I did not pray; and I did not read the Bible regularly.
Indeed, cancer might be a helpful image of evil within such a panentheistic analogy. Adventures in the Spirit: Part Four
Indeed, most monotheistic religions make judgments of varying degrees of severity upon non-believers. Times, Sunday Times
It is one of the most atheistic lands in the world.
At the same time it conflicts with theistic beliefs that many parents seek to instill in their children that life results from guided, rather than unguided change.
Let us then consider that atheistical, or rather pantheistical scheme, which attributes all the appearances of design in the world to the world itself; that is, to certain causes existing in the world which produce beings of various species, not by creation out of nothing, which they hold to be impossible, but by an evolution or development of principles contained in the world itself. Outlines of Moral Science.

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