How do you use Theism in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like religion or faith, plus the exact meaning.
Theism meaning
- Belief in the existence of at least one deity.
- Belief in the existence of a personal creator god, goddess, gods and/or goddesses present and active in the governance and organization of the world and the universe. The God may be known by or through revelation.
Using Theism
- The main meaning on this page is: Belief in the existence of at least one deity. | Belief in the existence of a personal creator god, goddess, gods and/or goddesses present and active in the governance and organization of the world and the universe. The God may be known by or through revelation.
- Useful related words include: religion, faith, religious belief, atheism.
- In the example corpus, theism often appears in combinations such as: theism and, theism is, classical theism.
Context around Theism
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 5 start, 6 middle, 9 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Theism
- In this selection, "theism" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 23.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, classical, open, handed, shamanism, offers and main stand out and add context to how "theism" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and open theism that he and arguments on theism and attempted. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "theism" sits close to words such as aapi, aarey and aberdare, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with theism
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Philosophical theism is entirely emotional. (5 words)
Moses Mendelssohn disagreed with Jacobi, saying that there is no actual difference between theism and pantheism. (16 words)
Theism is all derp so no matter the effort they could not possibly have moved the needle. (17 words)
He sees theism and atheism as competing empirical hypotheses, and states that "we're learning more and more about what makes us tick, including our moral sense, without needing the assumption of a deity or a soul. (37 words)
Dongell, Joseph and Walls, Jerry Why I Am Not a Calvinist, 45 There are also some Arminians, like Roger Olson, who believe Open theism to be an alternative view that a Christian can have. (34 words)
A second strand of Kaplanian theology exists, which makes clear that God has ontological reality, a real and absolute existence independent of human beliefs, while rejecting classical theism and any belief in miracles. (33 words)
Example sentences (20)
Nature worship is often considered the primitive source of modern religious beliefs and can be found in pantheism, panentheism, deism, polytheism, animism, Taoism, totemism, Hinduism, shamanism, some theism and paganism.
It was a shoddy end for one of TV’s great sci-fi series: a confounding, often dull hour that lapsed into heavy-handed theism and trite TV tropes.
Theism is all derp so no matter the effort they could not possibly have moved the needle.
Any other approach Rand termed "the primacy of consciousness", including any variant of metaphysical subjectivism or theism.
A second strand of Kaplanian theology exists, which makes clear that God has ontological reality, a real and absolute existence independent of human beliefs, while rejecting classical theism and any belief in miracles.
Dongell, Joseph and Walls, Jerry Why I Am Not a Calvinist, 45 There are also some Arminians, like Roger Olson, who believe Open theism to be an alternative view that a Christian can have.
He sees theism and atheism as competing empirical hypotheses, and states that "we're learning more and more about what makes us tick, including our moral sense, without needing the assumption of a deity or a soul.
Hindu views are broad and range from monism, through pantheism and panentheism (alternatively called monistic theism by some scholars) to monotheism and even atheism.
In contrast to Falk, Plaskow does not reject all concepts of difference as inherently leading to unethical beliefs, and holds to a more classical form of Jewish theism than Falk.
In the more recent material competing magical outlooks, such as theism, shamanism and mysticism, exist to explain the world.
Later Nyaya scholars, such as Udayana, examined various arguments on theism and attempted to prove existence of God.
Moses Mendelssohn disagreed with Jacobi, saying that there is no actual difference between theism and pantheism.
Nature mysticism may be compatible with pantheism but it may also be compatible with theism and other views.
Philo argues that even if the universe is indeed designed, it is unreasonable to justify the conclusion that the designer must be an omnipotent, omniscient, benevolent God - the God of classical theism.
Philosophical theism is entirely emotional.
Picirilli, Grace, Faith, Free Will, 40 – Picirilli actually objects so strongly to the link between Arminianism and Open theism that he devotes an entire section to his objections.
Priestley's science was integral to his theology, and he consistently tried to fuse Enlightenment rationalism with Christian theism.
Science and Theology, p. 75. * A wider humane reality: He considers that theism offers a more persuasive account of ethical and aesthetic perceptions.
That is, the basic structure of theism is essentially a distinction between a transcendent deity and all else, between the creator and his creation, between God and man.
Theism main Theists believe God created the universe and that God had a purpose in doing so.
Common combinations with theism
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- theism and 7×
- theism is 3×
- classical theism 3×
- of theism 3×
- open theism 2×