demiurgic

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Adam, perhaps the novel’s only personable creation, is a kind of demiurgic naïf, somewhere between a wide-eyed ingénue and an Enlightenment philosophe.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 15, 2019

According to Tolkien scholar John Garth, the story helps to establish “parameters of Tolkien’s world, enshrining aspects of good and evil in faery races and demiurgic beings who are locked in perpetual conflict.”

From The Verge • Aug. 1, 2018

And again in the Gorgias, he relates the fable concerning the three fabricators, and their demiurgic allotment.

From Introduction to the Philosophy and Writings of Plato by Taylor, Thomas

Art is the free play of generous and creative imaginations with the life-blood of the demiurgic forces of the universe in their veins.

From Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations by Powys, John Cowper

From the earliest times, however, in which we have writings upon the Scriptures, we find men doubting whether the demiurgic days of Moses are to be taken in a strictly literal sense.

From The Religion of Geology and Its Connected Sciences by Hitchcock, Edward