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“And while the system of grace known as syncretic has endeavoured to harmonize the principles of Thomism and Molinism, it has served but to double the difficulties instead of eliminating them.”

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon

“Comte may be described as a syncretic, who, like the Gnostics of early Church history, attempted to combine the substance of imperfectly comprehended contemporary science with the form of Roman Christianity.”

Collected Essays, Volume V Science and Christian Tradition: Essays

“Her work might also be described as "syncretic," although its spiritualism is somewhat submerged, since religion was not a hot topic in postmodernism.”

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“Custer has written what might be called a syncretic pop-culture myth, with a knowing eye for the different Biblical Nativity accounts read Matthew and Luke sometime.”

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“SANNEH: Yes and there was something kind of syncretic about the way he worked, about the way he pulled bits and pieces of threads from different things and it sometimes -- sometimes made him seem like someone who was still in the process of creating himself.”

CNN Transcript Sep 3, 2009

“True, that Christianity is “bastardized”; the term of art is syncretic, that is, it has accreted, accumulated bits and pieces of other religions as it has spread through different cultures and around the world; it’s also changed as its practioners have introduced new, and not necessarily improved, ideas.”

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“Rigorous believers may have a tendency to find "syncretic" what is inculturated from their own traditions.”

The Western Confucian

“Mexico, like the U.S. and Canada, have always been syncretic cultures ...”

D�a de Muertos vs. Halloween?

“Old oppositions like "Chinese classical art" and "Chinese modern and contemporary art" make less and less sense as the boundaries between the two become more and more porous, more and more fused and syncretic.”

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