syncretist

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So much of a syncretist is Plato, though not after the manner of the Neoplatonists.

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  1. One who attempts to blend incongruous tenets, or doctrines of different schools or churches, into a system. May not an ancient book be supposed to be the production of a series of imitators, editors, and syncretists, none of whom is exactly a deliberate forger? Westminster Rev., CXXV. 229.
  2. Specifically— A follower of Calixtus (1586–1656), a Lutheran divine, and professor of theology at Helmstedt, who endeavored to frame a religious system which should unite the different Christian denominations, Protestant and Catholic.
  3. One of a school, in the sixteenth century, which attempted to mediate between the Platonic and Aristotelian philosophies. Also used attributively: as, a syncretist religious system.

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  • Other pagan cultures contributed to the syncretist result. —  Pharyngula
  • Nature's God was theologically unitarian, universalist (did not eternally damn anyone) syncretist (most or all world religions worshipped Him), partially inspired the Christian Scriptures, and man's reason was ultimate device for understanding Him. —  jonrowe.blogspot.com
  • So much of a syncretist is Plato, though not after the manner of the Neoplatonists. —  Timaeus
  • Seems somewhat syncretist but interesting all the same. —  Glocal Christianity
  • In addition to this there was no lack of syncretist systems within Christianity as early as the 3rd century (see the [Greek: Kestoi] of Julius Africanus, and other examples). —  History of Dogma, Volume 2 (of 7)
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