| 单词 | theist |
| 例句 | He said that it was absurd to doubt that a man could be a theist and an evolutionist, as someone had said. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Saying that ancient foragers were probably animists is like saying that premodern agriculturists were mostly theists. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z He said, “My judgment often fluctuates. Moreover whether a man deserves to be called a theist depends on the definition of the term: which is much too large a subject for a note.” Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z It is certainly true to say that premodern agriculturists tended to be theists, but it does not teach us much about the particulars. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z I never before understood theists who pick and choose from a religion like Christianity. A skeptic goes to yoga 2012-07-12T00:00:00Z “I’m not an atheist for the same reason I’m not a theist,” he wrote last summer. George Jonas, Whose Book Was the Basis of the Film ‘Munich,’ Dies at 80 2016-01-18T05:00:00Z The vampire community lives by a Bill of Ethics, and research has shown that atheists are no less moral than theists. Atheists are no less moral: The sad delusion of the Christian Evangelical movement 2015-08-22T04:00:00Z But whether atheist or theist, all human beings benefit from belonging to a welcoming, supportive community. Atheist churches: A new type of secular community 2013-12-03T16:23:00Z Dogs are neither theist nor atheist, sectarian nor agnostic. Sick of forced gratitude, phony traditions? Take a lesson from Rover 2015-11-26T05:00:00Z Extreme theists and extreme atheists insist on locking people into one fixed identity. Secularists are not atheists 2012-09-09T16:00:00Z My parents, my relatives, my friends, my classmates, my teachers, and my principal, if they believe as they profess, are all theists. Godsmacked: I’m an atheist at a hardcore Christian academy 2014-01-24T13:00:00Z Mr. D’Souza dismissed Mr. Chapman as “a wounded theist,” in childish rebellion against the mean Sunday school teachers of the world. ArtsBeat Blog: Have a Little Faith? At NYU, The Debate Rages On 2011-11-16T20:55:51Z “I’m an atheist who is a theist,” he chuckles. Come Sunday: how one of America's biggest preachers became a pariah 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z Dear Amy: Responding to the letter from “Atheistic, but Not Amoral,” for both theists and atheists, the matter of belief is not a choice. Ask Amy: Parents won’t forgive drunken rant 2016-07-13T04:00:00Z The problem with Kearney’s argument is that it’s inherently theist, the assumption being that it’s the height or rudeness not to grant a theist his or her beliefs in an interview setting. Richard Dawkins is being pilloried as an “Islamophobe” for not wanting to discuss “winged horses” with devout interviewer 2015-12-29T05:00:00Z Whether you’re a monotheist or a polytheist or no theist at all, it will speak to you, and you might answer back, dancing and clapping and lifting your own voice. Review: Nature and Song Bring Electricity to ‘Gospel at Colonus’ 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z For one hour we create a place where there is no Jew or Gentile, no male or female, atheists or theists, gay or straight. Christians should abandon Christianity 2013-04-21T16:00:00Z There is a certain irony in that nearly all those cited were people of Christian faith — in order of appearance: practicing Catholic; passionate theist; committed Church of Scotland; and lifelong Lutheran. Review | Explaining spiritual experiences through a scientific lens 2023-03-17T04:00:00Z Beneath the 16th president’s steadfast gaze, African Americans, Native Americans, liberals, conservatives, independents, theists, atheists, hippies, veterans, anti-vaxxers, comedians, Juggalos and hundreds of other groups have gathered to demonstrate. On its 100th birthday, the Lincoln Memorial still beckons a nation divided Stenger quickly dismissed the theist notion of a God who responds to prayers and cures ill children, because scientists would’ve noticed that kind of divine intervention by now. Can Science Rule Out God? 2019-12-23T05:00:00Z “A lot of physicists do this. It misleads people into thinking they’re theists, they believe in God. It’s a metaphorical way of talking about absolute truth. Einstein used it metaphorically and playfully.” Einstein’s ‘God Letter,’ a Viral Missive From 1954 2018-12-02T05:00:00Z The congregation includes both theists and atheists, and services are based on original story telling that speaks to the church’s values. Losing our religion: The rise of secularism on the Seacoast 2017-02-27T05:00:00Z The “mechanical philosophy” of the 17th century was nurtured by theists: All creation’s materials are God’s materials. Review | Explaining spiritual experiences through a scientific lens 2023-03-17T04:00:00Z Most of the Founding Fathers were not devout theists, and as Matthew Stewart makes clear in his excellent book, “Nature’s God,” differed from Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. False prophet: Trump’s “black outreach” signals a new outbreak of religious pandering in politics 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z Michael Shermer, who writes about atheism and science, initially gave the book a fulsome jacket blurb: “This book should be read by every atheist and theist passionate about the truth.” Christopher Hitchens Was Shaky in his Atheism, New Book Suggests 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z Like religious creationists gazing upon biological complexity, secular theists assume that social complexity requires an intentional design imposed from on high by wise designers, a.k.a. them. The foolish ‘theism’ of government enthusiasts 2015-12-25T05:00:00Z It’s more likely the senator was referring to theists vs. atheists – with the latter being dismissed as unworthy of the Oval Office. This Week in God, 11.14.15 2015-11-14T05:00:00Z This applies to both the outright atheists and agnostics as well as the people who consider themselves theists but no longer identify as affiliated with organized religion. Many non-religious people still believe in God – what is that all about? | Adam Lee 2015-11-09T05:00:00Z His 2006 bestseller, The God Delusion, is a seminal handbook for questioning theists across the Internet. Atheism deserves better than Richard Dawkins: “Secular fundamentalism” is actively hurting the movement 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z For many people, not all of them believers or even theists, Francis represents the possibility of spiritual renewal, a yearning that lies deep in human history and consciousness. John Boehner’s tears and Pope Francis’ radical challenge: A spiritual leader rises as a political nonentity falls 2015-09-26T04:00:00Z “Secular theists” — economist Don Boudreaux’s term — produce governments gripped by the fatal conceit that they are wiser than society’s spontaneous experimental order. The foolish ‘theism’ of government enthusiasts 2015-12-25T05:00:00Z A theist who has closed the gap of the gods. The New Devil’s Dictionary 2015-08-05T04:00:00Z No, he’s never far from my memory and though he took consolation and comfort from entertaining a theist attitude, I’m still an atheist. Celebrations of Mind Honor Math s Best Friend, Martin Gardner 2013-10-29T21:45:00.387Z “Atheist” is a word invented by theists who see the world in religious terms. Readers Respond to "The Google Effect"--and More 2012-05-04T16:15:06.347Z What is known as the scientific method leads logically to the conclusion that there must be something that theists generally name God. The Eliminator; or, Skeleton Keys to Sacerdotal Secrets 2012-03-27T02:00:23.077Z Thus, by degrees, arose the various theists, who accepted a personal God with varying attributes; the pantheists, who identified God with nature, and the atheists, who denied absolutely God, or any equivalent. Joseph Smith as Scientist A Contribution to Mormon Philosophy 2012-03-12T03:00:27.817Z I cannot consider myself a "theist" entirely, but might call myself a "Christian theist." Miss Ellis's Mission 2012-02-11T03:04:04.613Z It could prove acceptable only to theists pure and simple, whose creed is practically limited to the three articles mentioned; namely, the belief in Deity, immortality, and future punishment and reward. The Moral Instruction of Children 2012-02-02T03:04:33.057Z Thēist′ic, -al, pertaining to theism, or to a theist: according to the doctrines of theists. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) 2012-01-30T03:00:19.113Z There must have been an intelligent potency, and that power theists call God. The Eliminator; or, Skeleton Keys to Sacerdotal Secrets 2012-03-27T02:00:23.077Z The movement for establishing "Equal Rights in Religion" was uniting Liberal Christians, Jews, independent theists, Spiritualists, materialists, evolutionists, agnostics, and atheists. Liberty In The Nineteenth Century 2011-12-24T03:08:02.240Z So one and all, whoever they are, wherever found, who have the spirit of Christ, are the sons of God, whether they call themselves merely theists, or Christian theists, it seems to me. Miss Ellis's Mission 2012-02-11T03:04:04.613Z But if mind has power, as all theists must grant, then the human mind may have power. Calvinistic Controversy Embracing a Sermon on Predestination and Election and Several Numbers, Formally Published in the Christian Advocate and Journal. 2011-12-08T03:00:27.177Z Though respecting the right of the atheist and theist to their theories of the origin of nature, the Secularist regards them as belonging to the debatable ground of speculation. English Secularism A Confession Of Belief 2011-11-24T03:00:50.030Z Materialism in its last analysis ascribes to matter all that theists ascribe to God. The Eliminator; or, Skeleton Keys to Sacerdotal Secrets 2012-03-27T02:00:23.077Z The questions at issue lie not between theists and pantheists, but between those who alike reject Pantheism as erroneous. Know the Truth; A critique of the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation 2011-10-29T02:00:13.723Z He later called himself a deist, or theist, not discriminating between the terms. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 1 "Franciscans" to "French Language" 2011-10-22T02:00:29.487Z He cannot be classed with deists of the past or theists of the present. The Life Of Thomas Paine, Vol. II. (of II) With A History of His Literary, Political and Religious Career in America France, and England 2011-10-12T02:00:47.957Z Why is it that atheists and theists alike now think and speak about God in a way that veers so profoundly from the thinking of our ancestors? The Weekly E-Book Reading List - 10/2/2011 2011-10-03T03:44:33Z And this Power theists persist in calling God. The Eliminator; or, Skeleton Keys to Sacerdotal Secrets 2012-03-27T02:00:23.077Z The God of the theists rules the world from above as a quite distinct establishment. The Prose Writings of Heinrich Heine 2011-09-21T02:00:27.670Z Thus it may be maintained that whenever man turns to a guardian not of this world, not present to the senses, man is for the moment a theist, and often a monotheist. Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:19.110Z Paine was a theist, but he arose legitimately in his admirer Shelley, who was punished for atheism. The Life Of Thomas Paine, Vol. II. (of II) With A History of His Literary, Political and Religious Career in America France, and England 2011-10-12T02:00:47.957Z The theist used to declare—without misgiving—the absolute certainty of the existence of an independent, active Entity, to whom Nature is second-hand, and not much at that. Bygones Worth Remembering, Vol. 2 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:17.663Z To the Jew of that, as of preceding periods, to the crude theist of all periods, the belief in miracles was and is easy. The Cradle of the Christ A Study in Primitive Christianity 2011-07-19T02:00:18.297Z Only in regard to the manner of that rule do the theists differ among themselves. The Prose Writings of Heinrich Heine 2011-09-21T02:00:27.670Z Voltaire's polemic cannot be described as anti-religious, for he himself was a theist. Religion and Science From Galileo to Bergson 2011-04-07T02:00:16.760Z It is not, however, with such theories we are concerned just now, but only with theories put forward by theists. Ontology or the Theory of Being 2011-04-01T02:00:38.727Z Paine was a Republican, a theist, and a social reformer. A Short History of English Liberalism 2010-12-22T15:03:38.007Z America’s Founding Fathers, albeit living in a world where most people were assumed to be theists and Christians, used finer prose to affirm their belief in liberty. 2009-12-17T11:02:00Z But when theists charge one another with “anthropomorphism,” in order to rebuke what they deem unduly manlike conceptions of God, they stand on slippery ground. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 2 "Anjar" to "Apollo" By his will he founded the Boyle lectures, for proving the Christian religion against “notorious infidels, viz. atheists, theists, pagans, Jews and Mahommedans,” with the proviso that controversies between Christians were not to be mentioned. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 3 "Borgia, Lucrezia" to "Bradford, John" It is in determining how precisely this is, or can be, that the theist and the monist differ. Ontology or the Theory of Being 2011-04-01T02:00:38.727Z The issue between theist and atheist is: What is the necessary, absolute, uncaused, unconditioned being or substance? The Galaxy, May, 1877 Vol. XXIII.—May, 1877.—No. 5. The difference between them was that Rousseau was a fervent theist. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 4 "Diameter" to "Dinarchus" The ultimate claims of the theist to spiritual superiority and serenity are oddly bracketed with the charges of arrogance and Epicureanism constantly made by him against his antagonist. Rationalism That his lordship was a theist, and a disbeliever in miracles and revelations, cannot and need not be denied. Critical Remarks on Sir Charles Grandison, Clarissa, and Pamela (1754) If theists will but do this, what they will see will astonish them. Communism and Christianism Analyzed and Contrasted from the Marxian and Darwinian Points of View If the matters in dispute between theist, deist, and pantheist are trivialities, then and then only can we regard the enterprise of the Christologians as chimerical and their achievements as futile. Monophysitism Past and Present A Study in Christology Whoever accepts them, by whatever other name he prefer to call himself, is essentially a theist. Old-Fashioned Ethics and Common-Sense Metaphysics With Some of Their Applications Once more, he does but ask the theist to take one more step in a criticism which he has already carried far, with small trouble to himself. Rationalism The theist will accept it as the plan by which Eternal Power steadily works. The Meaning of Evolution So the theist returns to self-existence; which, however, says Spencer, is as inconceivable as a self-existent universe, involving the inconceivable idea of unlimited duration. Orthodoxy: Its Truths And Errors May not both theist and atheist find in this line of thought a partial answer to the oft recurring modern prayer, “Help thou mine unbelief.”—From the Religio-Philosophic Journal. The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, February, 1880 By this reply, the theist is, in our opinion, disarmed, and the sceptic victorious. A Theodicy, or, Vindication of the Divine Glory And he can confidently claim that here, where he is philosophically at one with the thorough-going theist, he has all the possible moral gain from his determinism without an iota of the theist’s perplexity. Rationalism Man is a theist, before he becomes a Christian. A Tour of the Missions Observations and Conclusions Both he and the theist tarry in department Two of their minds only so long as is necessary to define what is the presence that confronts them. The Will to Believe : and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy A deist or theist in Franklin's time was one who believed in a God, but questioned the Christian faith and system. True to His Home A Tale of the Boyhood of Franklin The truth is, that the theist has assailed the sceptic in his strong and impregnable point, and left the vulnerable part of his system untouched. A Theodicy, or, Vindication of the Divine Glory There remain for use by the theist only the old reproaches that a non-theistic philosophy is ‘desolate,’ ‘negative,’ ‘materialistic,’ and incapable of explaining the universe. Rationalism Brougham professed, let us hope, sincerely, to be an orthodox theist, and explained the argument from design in a commentary upon Paley. The English Utilitarians, Volume II (of 3) James Mill The theist decides that its character is such as to be fitly responded to on his part by a religious reaction; and into that reaction he forthwith pours his soul. The Will to Believe : and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy At the age of fifteen Franklin had avowed himself a deist, or theist, which must have grieved his parents, who were people of positive Christian faith. True to His Home A Tale of the Boyhood of Franklin On the other hand, the theist, by conceding the error and contesting the truth of the sceptic, has inextricably entangled himself in the toils of the adversary. A Theodicy, or, Vindication of the Divine Glory The theists own argument, if logically pursued ends in divesting it of all coercive value. Theism or Atheism The Great Alternative They have as little fellowship with the atheist who says there is no God, as with the theist who professes to know the mind of God. Fragments of science, V. 1-2 The world is not the same to the Christian theist and to the agnostic. Elementary Guide to Literary Criticism This last is the fate of philosophic theists, as we find it expressed in the writings of Avicenna and Farabi. Mystics and Saints of Islam If the theist, by such means, should gain a complete victory, this would be due to the faith of the vanquished, rather than to the superiority of the logic by which he is subdued. A Theodicy, or, Vindication of the Divine Glory Quite unquestionably a great deals depends upon what is meant by causation, and still more upon the use made of the law of causation by theists. Theism or Atheism The Great Alternative If Voltaire have not succeeded in proving himself a strong theist and a strong anti-revelationist, who is to succeed in proving himself one thing or the other in any matter whatsoever? A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I He used to call himself a deist, or theist; and said that a deist was as much like an atheist as chalk is like charcoal. Benjamin Franklin To recognize such action in such laws is a religious mode of regarding phenomena, which a consistent theist must necessarily accept, and which an atheistic believer must similarly reject. On the Genesis of Species Before proceeding to establish this position, we shall consider the usual reply of the theist to the great argument of the atheist. A Theodicy, or, Vindication of the Divine Glory The theist is, as is often the case, saying one thing and meaning another. Theism or Atheism The Great Alternative Bolingbroke, like most feeble reasoners, believed firmly in Free Will; and though a theist after a fashion, his religion had not emotional depth or logical coherence enough to be pantheistic. Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.) The theist realizes, however, that belief is at one pole, reason at the other. The Necessity of Atheism Neither the physical nor the hyperphysical actions, however, exclude the idea of the Divine concurrence, and with every consistent theist that idea is necessarily included. On the Genesis of Species The effects of the hypothesis of the sceptic may be neutralized by opposing to it the hypothesis of the theist. A Theodicy, or, Vindication of the Divine Glory The theist, in short, commences with a wrong conception of causation. Theism or Atheism The Great Alternative The central thesis, "whatever is is right," might be understood in various senses, and in some sense it would be accepted by every theist. Alexander Pope English Men of Letters Series Hume, with the publication of the highly heretical "Treatise on Human Nature," threw consternation into the ranks of the theists. The Necessity of Atheism Rousseau was a sentimental theist; Voltaire erected a church to God. The Religious Situation The theist, however, who maintains this beautiful sentiment, is accustomed to make concessions by which its beauty is marred, and its foundation subverted. A Theodicy, or, Vindication of the Divine Glory The "harmony" which the theist perceives in nature is not the expression of "plan," it is the inevitable outcome of the properties of existence. Theism or Atheism The Great Alternative This is the doctrine of the Materialists, and to this doctrine, we are sorry to say, Mr. Darwin, although himself a theist, has given in his adhesion. What is Darwinism? If the theist puts forward the statement that God has always existed, the atheist may well reply that if God has always existed, why can he not say that the universe has always existed? The Necessity of Atheism As a materialist, then, he would appear to be as much entitled to his hypothesis as a theist is to his—in respect, I mean, of this particular argument. A Candid Examination of Theism This is the high, impregnable ground of the true Christian theist. A Theodicy, or, Vindication of the Divine Glory In the very act of attempting to prove that some things are made, the theist is compelled to assume that all things are not made. Theism or Atheism The Great Alternative Bodin was half way between a theist and a deist; he believed that the Decalogue was a natural law imprinted in all men's hearts and that Judaism was the nearest to being a natural religion. The Age of the Reformation The theists protested vehemently, and showed their superiority by calling their dogs "Immanuel Kant." The Necessity of Atheism But as this is a favourite argument with some theists, I shall introduce another quotation from Mr. Mill, which is taken from a different work. A Candid Examination of Theism Now, in replying to this argument, no theist denies the major premiss. A Theodicy, or, Vindication of the Divine Glory The Atheist is only calling the attention of the theist to the consequences of his own argument. Theism or Atheism The Great Alternative The difference, on the one hand, between such a person and a genuine theist, is infinitely greater than that, on the other, between him and one that absolutely excludes all invisible intelligent power. Hume (English Men of Letters Series) Thus the theist is led to the conclusion that the end justifies the means. The Necessity of Atheism What is the state of the present argument as between a materialist and a theist? A Candid Examination of Theism Why does so much evil exist, seeing that everything is formed by a God whom all theists are agreed in naming "good?" Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary And when the theist says that because certain things work together therefore god arranged it, an apt query is, How do you know? Theism or Atheism The Great Alternative Such repudiate, and justly, the name of theists: but they decline, and justly, the name of atheists. Westminster Sermons with a Preface Socrates relied on the now outmoded argu255ment from design; and only in a greatly modified form are the arguments of Plato and Aristotle accepted by modern theists. The Necessity of Atheism In order to discuss this question, let us begin by allowing the theist to continue his pleading. A Candid Examination of Theism For entirely savage races, it has been said already that one cannot count them among either the atheists or the theists. Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary What the theist does at every step of his reasoning is to read his own feelings and desires into nature. Theism or Atheism The Great Alternative Plato would not have been a dogmatic moralist, had he not been a theist. Winds Of Doctrine Studies in Contemporary Opinion The theist recognizes a creator who created the universe and is responsible for its operation. The Necessity of Atheism Therefore, to sum up these considerations on physical suffering, the case between a theist and a sceptic as to the question of divine beneficence is seen to be a case of extreme simplicity. A Candid Examination of Theism The speculating atheist, the theist will tell us, may be an honest man, but his writings will cause atheism in politics. Superstition In All Ages (1732) Common Sense Nor is the case of the theist bettered if he retorts that without the sense of imperfection or of dissatisfaction there would be no such thing as a conscious striving after improvement. Theism or Atheism The Great Alternative For the theist, all theisms have a profound element of truth in them; and all alleged revelations will, in his eyes, be natural theisms, struggling to embody themselves in some authorised and authoritative form. Is Life Worth Living? The secularists, the opinion of the theists to the contrary, are also agreed. The Necessity of Atheism The dilemma is, that, looking to the facts of organic nature, theists must abandon their belief, either in the divine omnipotence, or in the divine beneficence. A Candid Examination of Theism The theologian's God, as well as the God of the theist, is He not evidently a cause incompatible with the effects attributed to Him? Superstition In All Ages (1732) Common Sense The standpoint of the theist is that God develops the species in order to benefit the individual. Theism or Atheism The Great Alternative So far from the similarities to her in other religions telling 312against the special claims of the Catholic Church, they must really, with the candid theist, tell very strongly in her favour. Is Life Worth Living? The theists no longer use Paley's original arguments, but a great deal of the theistic arguments are still based on his assumptions. The Necessity of Atheism And this, as we have seen, is a consideration to which our imaginary theist was not blind. A Candid Examination of Theism But surely it is time for theists to abandon this assumption. Thoughts on Religion And if theists will examine nature candidly and with an open mind, they will see that it is so. Theism or Atheism The Great Alternative All this, of course, does not prove that Catholicism is the truth; but it will show the theist that, for all that the modern world can tell him, it may be. Is Life Worth Living? When the theist finds intention and design in nature he is but reading his own feeling and desires into nature. The Necessity of Atheism Under the influence of the Kâlacakra the Lamas did not become theists in the sense of worshipping one supreme God but they identified with the Adi-Buddha some particular deity, varying according to the sects. Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 3 It may not make much difference to a man who is already a theist, for then it is but a question of modus, but it makes a great difference to the evidence of Theism. Thoughts on Religion If, he says, theists will look the facts of the universe steadily in the face: What they will see will astonish them. Theism or Atheism The Great Alternative This must be so far known by the theist, that he knows its connection with himself. Is Life Worth Living? The anthropomorphic conception of God, our Martian finds, is now denied by most cultured theists; nevertheless, they still maintain a belief in a deity endowed with consciousness. The Necessity of Atheism Is it a perfectly proper thing that, in one age, men should be idealists, and in another, materialists; in one, theists, and in another, agnostics? An Introduction to Philosophy The decision as to the correctness of the beliefs of the materialist or of the theist must be reached by other data than those of natural science. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XVI., December, 1880. None can reject them, because no theist can afford to candidly admit that the world we know offers no justification for his belief. Theism or Atheism The Great Alternative The theist confesses freely that the importance of the moral end is a thing that the facts of life, as we now know them, will never properly explain to us. Is Life Worth Living? "The finite mind cannot expect to understand the Infinite," retorts a theist to our Martian. The Necessity of Atheism Every theist believes that the order of the universe once began to be; and every Christian and most other men, believe that it will also one day cease to be. Reason and Faith; Their Claims and Conflicts From The Edinburgh Review, October 1849, Volume 90, No. CLXXXII. (Pages 293-356) For Buddhist theists, it is the absorption of the individual life in God; for atheists, absorption of this individual life in the nothing. Ten Great Religions An Essay in Comparative Theology That is the point the theist must face; it is the one point he systematically avoids. Theism or Atheism The Great Alternative Thus the theist, upon his own theory, has an eye ever upon him. Is Life Worth Living? In former ages the theist saw God in the color and construction of a flower, in the starry heavens, and in a sunset or sunrise. The Necessity of Atheism This saying ought not to scandalize even the most devout theist. Tragic Sense Of Life Brāhmas or theists, believers in Brahma, are a religious body that originated in Bengal in the nineteenth century. New Ideas in India During the Nineteenth Century A Study of Social, Political, and Religious Developments Neither do all theists deny that "God" is unknowable. Theism or Atheism The Great Alternative Were I a theist, I should have the best of grounds, for I should believe that hereafter my friend's present contentment would be dissipated, and would give place to despair. Is Life Worth Living? This contention would make it appear that there is a law outside and anterior to the divine edicts, and God does not serve the purpose of the theist since he is not the ultimate lawgiver. The Necessity of Atheism They were christians as well as theists, so that their authority goes as far in one respect as in the other. Answer to Dr. Priestley's Letters to a Philosophical Unbeliever As Indian theists also, when their first church was opened in 1830, they gave the Indian sanction to congregational worship and prayer, "before unknown to Hindus." New Ideas in India During the Nineteenth Century A Study of Social, Political, and Religious Developments Does the Agnostic claim that the evidence produced by the theist is merely inadequate, or that it is irrelevant? Theism or Atheism The Great Alternative The theist, of course, believes that truth is sacred. Is Life Worth Living? To Lamartine the theist, as to the pantheists Goethe, Shelley, and Byron, Nature was a friend and lover. The Development of the Feeling for Nature in the Middle Ages and Modern Times An atheist and a theist only differ by a single letter; yet theologians are so subtle as to distinguish definitely between the two. The New Jerusalem The pantheists are thus no separate sect from the theists, any more than the theists are from the polytheists. New Ideas in India During the Nineteenth Century A Study of Social, Political, and Religious Developments Now these statements put the case for the theist as moderately and as well as it can be put, and I think that they are worthy of a little careful examination. Theism or Atheism The Great Alternative The doctrine of the necessity of creation, though held in a few instances by theists who seem not to have discerned its logical consequences, is virtually pantheistic. Sermons to the Natural Man He was not a theist only, but a Christian. Sydney Smith Thus, the theists take their cue from manufacture, the pantheists from growth. A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy Now, pantheistic in argument and polytheistic in domestic practices as educated Hindus still are, they never call themselves pantheists, and would resent being called polytheists; they call themselves theists. New Ideas in India During the Nineteenth Century A Study of Social, Political, and Religious Developments The modern theist saves his God only by leaving him a negligible quantity in a universe he is supposed to sustain and govern. Theism or Atheism The Great Alternative Her doctrine of Nemesis resembles that of the old Greeks more than that of the modern optimists and theists. George Eliot; a Critical Study of Her Life, Writings & Philosophy Either of these suppositions would be the death of natural philosophy: the hylozoist endows matter with a property which conflicts with its nature, and the theist oversteps the boundary of possible experience. History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time A philosophic theist might subscribe the popular creed of the Mahometans; a creed too sublime, perhaps, for our present faculties. History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 5 What, then, is this providence which the theists suppose in God? System of Economical Contradictions; or, the Philosophy of Misery But it is evident that when the theist talks of intuition, what he has in mind is something very different from this. Theism or Atheism The Great Alternative Some scientists are theists just because they are bound to be so, for the close contemplation of the entire situation in the material realm does not make for any adequate theistic verdict. Understanding the Scriptures A theist, very estimable for his talents, asks, "if there can be any other cause than an evil disposition, which can make men atheists?" The System of Nature, Volume 2 In religion he was a theist; but he is less spiritual in his vein of thought, and more reserved in his utterances on this theme, than Plato. Outline of Universal History If I am a spirit, a sentient me giving voice to ideas, continues the theist, I consequently am a part of absolute existence; I am free, creative, immortal, equal with God. System of Economical Contradictions; or, the Philosophy of Misery And, presumably, the theist would still point to the existence of that order as clear proof of a designing intelligence. Theism or Atheism The Great Alternative At the same time he was a religious man and a theist. Unitarianism in America After having proved the existence of those whom the superstitious bigot, the heated theologian, the inconsequent theist, calls atheists, let us return to the calumnies which are so profusely showered upon them by the deicolists. The System of Nature, Volume 2 This position is common to theist and pantheist. Literary Remains, Volume 2 Unless the soul is immortal, God is incomprehensible, say the theists; resembling in this the political theorists who regard sovereign representation and perpetual tenure of office as essential conditions of monarchy. System of Economical Contradictions; or, the Philosophy of Misery By this method the theist might reach "God." Theism or Atheism The Great Alternative Nearly every theist is driven to the necessity of having another world in which his god may correct the mistakes he has made in this. Lectures of Col. R. G. Ingersoll - Latest Many incredulous beings, many theists, are to be met with in those countries where freedom of opinion reigns; that is to say, where the civil power has known how to balance superstition. The System of Nature, Volume 2 Of divine promises and revelations Koheleth—who can hardly claim to be considered a theist, and whose God is Fate, Nature, eternal Will—knows nothing. The Sceptics of the Old Testament: Job - Koheleth - Agur The third and last proof of the existence of God proposed by the theists and called by them the metaphysical proof is nothing but a tautological construction of categories, which proves absolutely nothing. System of Economical Contradictions; or, the Philosophy of Misery We do not know, and cannot know, Substance in itself; and the theist promptly adds that this unknown substance is but another name for God. Theism or Atheism The Great Alternative If the theist sees God only in a favourable light; the bigot views him in the most hideous light. Good Sense What theist doubts that the actual results of the development in the inorganic worlds are not merely compatible with design, but are in the truest sense designed results? The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 36, October, 1860 He is no more a materialist than he is a theist. Beacon Lights of History, Volume 14 The New Era; A Supplementary Volume, by Recent Writers, as Set Forth in the Preface and Table of Contents Today this is scarcely discussed: the theists are no longer troubled by the logical impossibilities of their system. System of Economical Contradictions; or, the Philosophy of Misery The theist is trying, in a similar way, to use the conception of "cause," which is created to express the relations between phenomena, in a world where phenomena have no existence. Theism or Atheism The Great Alternative Whatever be the truth about Idealism, man is by nature a Realist; and similarly he is by nature a theist, until he has studiously learnt to balance himself in the non-natural pose. The Faith of the Millions (2nd series) To illustrate this first from the theist's point of view. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 36, October, 1860 But in the years just before 1877 study of modern science and philosophy, of the history of the Church and dogma, led him to become an evolutionist, an agnostic theist. Poems and Songs The old theists were more anxious about their faith. System of Economical Contradictions; or, the Philosophy of Misery Thus, when the theist, to use his own words, has traced back an effect to a cause, and this to a prior cause, and so on, till he has reached a "First Cause," what happens? Theism or Atheism The Great Alternative The good shall be persecuted and the theists tortured, and those that say there is balm in Gilead, shall be thrust beyond the pale of decent society. Without Prejudice So the issue between the skeptic and the theist is only the old one, long ago argued out,—namely, whether organic Nature is a result of design or of chance. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 36, October, 1860 He was a theist, of wavering and doubtful faith. The Eve of the French Revolution The difference is the same as that between plus nothing and minus nothing, and it is hard to say which we ought to admire and thank most - the first theist or the first atheist. The Note-Books of Samuel Butler At the end of the chain of phenomena the theist makes a mighty jump and gains the noumenon. Theism or Atheism The Great Alternative Whatever theist fortunes, they would always be welcome here.... The Inside of the Cup — Complete Whatever theist fortunes, they would always be welcome here . The Inside of the Cup — Volume 08 Voltaire and Rousseau were theists, with different sorts of faith, and the Philosophers, although treating all churches, and especially all priests, with contempt, had retained, at least in speech, some remnant of theism. The Eve of the French Revolution In the ultimate analysis we suppose that every philosophical theist must adopt one or the other conception. Darwiniana; Essays and Reviews Pertaining to Darwinism And it is in line with what is done in other directions, that, having created the difficulty, the theist should present it to the non-theist as one of the questions that he must answer. Theism or Atheism The Great Alternative He was, I am informed, either a theist or an atheist, I cannot for the moment recall which - I think that we should make our little course as improving as possible.’ A Duet, with an Occasional Chorus Imagine it to end this very moment, and to have no future; and then let a theist and a materialist apply their rival explanations to its history. Pragmatism The person who believes in a transcendental theology alone, is termed a deist; he who acknowledges the possibility of a natural theology also, a theist. The Critique of Pure Reason To illustrate this from the theist's point of view: Transfer the question for a moment from the origination of species to the origination of individuals, which occurs, as we say, naturally. Darwiniana; Essays and Reviews Pertaining to Darwinism Now, curiously enough, modern theists hover between the two positions. Theism or Atheism The Great Alternative Surely, too, the accidental element may play its part in Nature without negativing design in the theists view. Evolution and Ethics The theist shows how a God made it; the materialist shows, and we will suppose with equal success, how it resulted from blind physical forces. Pragmatism "I have only known two or three people who from atheists became theists, and they were horrid," said Erica, emphatically. We Two, a novel But, whatever view one unconvinced may take, it cannot remain doubtful what position a theist ought to occupy. Darwiniana; Essays and Reviews Pertaining to Darwinism The Christian theist denies every god but his own. Theism or Atheism The Great Alternative To illustrate this from the theists point of view: Transfer the question for a moment from the origination of species to the origination of individuals, which occurs, as we say, naturally. Evolution and Ethics And, in spite of Lessing's own declarations, he endeavours to show that he was an ordinary theist,—a follower of Leibnitz rather than of Spinoza. The Unseen World and Other Essays The theist needs a special kind of energy, a special form of existence, a special kind of "reality" if his case is to be established. Theism or Atheism The Great Alternative That is just what machines and organisms are for; and a consistent Christian theist should maintain that is what all matter is for. Darwiniana; Essays and Reviews Pertaining to Darwinism In doing this he has the concurrence of all theists in discarding every god save one—his own. Theism or Atheism The Great Alternative Whatever other qualities this "Ultimate Reality" has or lacks, it must have that one if it is to be of use to the theist. Theism or Atheism The Great Alternative So far as professed theists are concerned one expects this to be ignored. Theism or Atheism The Great Alternative Yet nothing is more common than to find the theist, when driven off all other grounds of defence, protesting against a deliberate propaganda of Atheism on the ground of its probable harmful consequences to morals. Theism or Atheism The Great Alternative How strange that a convinced theist should be so prone to associate design only with miracle! Darwiniana; Essays and Reviews Pertaining to Darwinism For, after all, what the theist needs is, not an eternal energy, but a personality. Theism or Atheism The Great Alternative And in this respect it is dangerous for the Christian theist to appeal to history. Theism or Atheism The Great Alternative |
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