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Definition of 'theist'English
Noun
( en-noun)
One who believes in the existence of a god or gods.
* 1999 , Jeaneane D. Fowler, Humanism: Beliefs & Practices, page 66
- The term stands in contradistinction to theism which, in its widest sense, means belief in a personal god, goddess, gods and /or goddesses.
* {{quote-book
| year = 1764
| author = Voltaire
| title = Philosophical Dictionary
| url = http://www.online-literature.com/voltaire/philosophical-dictionary/91/
| passage = The theist is a man firmly persuaded of the existence of a Supreme Being as good as He is powerful, who has formed all beings with extension, vegetating, sentient and reflecting; who perpetuates their species, who punishes crimes without cruelty, and rewards virtuous actions with kindness.
}}
* {{quote-magazine
| year = 1854
| title = Speculative Atheism
| first = Theodore
| last = Parker
| editors = Linton, W. J.
| magazine = The English Republic
| volume = 3
| page = 205
| passage = and I call him a theist who believes in any God.
}}
* {{quote-book
| year = 1870
| title = An Essay in aid of a Grammar of Assent
| first = John Henry
| last = Newman
| page = 119
| url = http://books.google.com/books?id=YEkXAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA119
| passage = No one is to be called a Theist , who does not believe in a Personal God, whatever difficulty there may be in defining the word "Personal."
}}
Antonyms
* atheist
Hyponyms
( top3)
* bitheist, ditheist
* deist
* monotheist
( mid3)
* omnitheist
* pandeist
* panentheist
( mid3)
* pantheist, cosmotheist
* polytheist
* tritheist
( bottom3)
Related terms
* theism
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