Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One who attempts to blend incongruous tenets, or doctrines of different schools or churches, into a system.
- n. 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.
- n. 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.
Wiktionary
- n. One who attempts syncretism, the fusion of different systems or beliefs.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Eccl. Hist.) One who attempts to unite principles or parties which are irreconcilably at variance an adherent of George Calixtus and other Germans of the seventeenth century, who sought to unite or reconcile the Protestant sects with each other and with the Roman Catholics, and thus occasioned a long and violent controversy in the Lutheran church.
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“In the context of the point you bring up basically the later Akbar who was more the 'syncretist' is read back into the young Akbar who was more than happy (on sincere or politically expedient grounds) to represent himself as a 'warrior of the faith'.”
“Scott is a modern-day Renaissance Man with interests in astronomy, history, natural sciences, psychology, philosophy, Native American culture, and all future-forward topics; he has been called an adept syncretist by Kirkus Discoveries for NeitherWorld.”
“I was a bit of loon in those days, maybe, compulsively, almost schizophrenically syncretist, trying to "put it all together", to find the grand, unifying story that all of these ideas could be fitted into.”
“So much of a syncretist is Plato, though not after the manner of the”
“His religious practice would seem to be New Age or syncretist or multicultural.”
“No Shelleyan syncretist, Heber was nonetheless a learned comparatist (as his "Brightest and Best" Magi hymn suggests), interested in a Manichean Zoroastrianism that would divide good from evil.”
“But, condemned by the Church of Rome to - ward the middle of that century, it became more and more syncretist.”
“Founded in the third century of our era by the Persian Mani, Manicheism is one of the late, syncretist forms of Gnosticism.”
“Only the syncretist period of later antiquity conceives of the world as governed by good and evil demons.”
“Above all, redemption to the syncretist and the gnostic meant the separation of what had been unnaturally conjoined, while to the”
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