antitheological

There might be theological as well as antitheological attitudes playing part.

HANDS Across the Godhead? James F. McGrath 2010

Kant was perturbed by Hume's criticisms of causality, but even more perturbed by the antitheological application Hume made of his causal skepticism in the Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion.

Kant and Leibniz Wilson, Catherine 2008

This fact is lost sight of, partly because scholasticism, the use of Aristotle by the Roman Catholic Church, was the phantom of philosophy within the old order that was violently attacked by the modern philosophers, more out of antitheological ire than by dislike of ancient philosophy.

THE CLOSING OF THE AMERICAN MIND Allan Bloom 2003

This fact is lost sight of, partly because scholasticism, the use of Aristotle by the Roman Catholic Church, was the phantom of philosophy within the old order that was violently attacked by the modern philosophers, more out of antitheological ire than by dislike of ancient philosophy.

THE CLOSING OF THE AMERICAN MIND Allan Bloom 2003

By exploiting this distinction it would become possible for a Shelley, for example, to take a strong antitheological -- even an anti-Christian -- position without having to abandon myth.

The System of Nature, Volume 1 Paul Henri Thiry Holbach 1756

Once we learn not to be distracted by theological (or antitheological) thinking, and look at the simple Axial Age synchrony of the phenomenon (in the Axial interval), we suddenly see its isomorphism to the other Axial instances.

Darwiniana 2008

-- "The transformation from the old denominational education to the new undenominational education was in point of fact due to an antitheological -- and even in some of its manifestations -- anti-religious movement.

Catholic Problems in Western Canada George Thomas Daly 1914