Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One who believes in the existence of a God; especially, one who believes in a God who sustains a personal relation to his creatures. In the former sense opposed to atheist, in the latter to deist.
Wiktionary
- n. One who believes in the existence of a god, goddess, gods and/or goddesses.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. One who believes in the existence of a God; especially, one who believes in a personal God; -- opposed to
atheist .
WordNet 3.0
- adj. of or relating to theism
- n. one who believes in the existence of a god or gods
Etymologies
- From Ancient Greek θεός ("god") + -ist. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“I used to be an atheist but then I realized that "a-theist" is still god centered.”
“And as I pointed out, your position effectively drains the terms "theistic evolutionist" and "creationist" of all meaning, such that every theist is both a "theistic evolutionist" and a "creationist" at the same time.”
“Shouldn't He be just part of life and aligned with good whether someone identifies as theist or not?”
“To be fair, I think the theist is confident, tolerant, sympathetic if and only if: he’s raped an altar boy, tortured to death a heretic, successfully waged war on an infidel nation.”
Difference Between Theists, Agnostics and Atheists | My[confined]Space
“Anyway, that would be a problem for the atheist’s position in this case, since the theist is happy to stop at a single (or finite-numbered, just as good) universe, since the next step is God.”
“To summarize a long and heated debate, he sees himself as a "theist" -- a non-atheist -- but this doesn't translate as belief in God in the conventional sense.”
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“Clearly an atheist calling a theist stupid would be rather... stupid in itself wouldn't it?”
“The theist is a man firmly persuaded of the existence of a”
“Weak, or negative, atheism is either the absence of the belief that gods exist (in which case anyone who is not a theist is a weak atheist), or of both the belief that gods exist and the belief that they do not exist (in which case anyone who is neither a theist nor a strong atheist is a weak atheist).”
“An observer unaware of this history might expect that anyone who believes in a God who cares about human beings that is, a theist would be someone who believes in Intelligent Design.”
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