theism

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Theism, for instance, originally argued that contingent being is the result of a necessarily existing God who necessarily creates "the world as it actually is."

From Slate • Feb. 10, 2012

Theism concluded that God's purpose in creating contingent beings was that contingent beings would come to love God, a love that God recognized as a fundamental good.

From Slate • Feb. 10, 2012

His discourses on Providence, the Economy of Pain and Misery, Atheism, Theism, in the volume entitled "Theism, Atheism, and The Popular Theology," are quite in the style of the "Bridgewater Treatises."

From Transcendentalism in New England A History by Frothingham, Octavius Brooks

Heresy is in itself neither Atheism nor Theism, neither the rejection of the Church of Rome, nor of Canterbury, nor of Constantinople; heresy is not necessarily of any-ist or-ism.

From Theological Essays by Bradlaugh, Charles

The one will be Pantheism, or Atheism,—both of which contain the same essential principle, but viewed from different standpoints,—the other will be a pure Theism.

From Know the Truth; A critique of the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation by Jones, Jesse H.