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  • adjective Not theological.

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non- +‎ theological

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Examples

  • Second, the use of the word God in the American political tradition has also reflected nontheological claims.

    Bruce Ledewitz: Well, Don't We Liberals Hate the Public God? Bruce Ledewitz 2011

  • Second, the use of the word God in the American political tradition has also reflected nontheological claims.

    Bruce Ledewitz: Well, Don't We Liberals Hate the Public God? Bruce Ledewitz 2011

  • Why are nontheological explanations considered more correct?

    Carry-Over Thread 2007

  • Why are nontheological explanations considered more correct?

    Carry-Over Thread 2007

  • Rather, the theological understanding of obligation is the authentic one, and nontheological concepts of obligation are unintelligible truncations.

    Theological Voluntarism Murphy, Mark 2008

  • Father Juan Diego Chavez, a 33-year-old priest who lives in Rome, called the changes "pleasant," though he says he still prefers to get his nontheological news from other papers.

    Is the Pope's Newspaper Catholic? 2008

  • People initially became Christians for a number of rational, nontheological reasons, he argues, and not, he told me, because "two thousand people on a Tuesday afternoon went and heard Saint Paul."

    Oh, Gods! 2002

  • People initially became Christians for a number of rational, nontheological reasons, he argues, and not, he told me, because "two thousand people on a Tuesday afternoon went and heard Saint Paul."

    Oh, Gods! 2002

  • Up to now, supposedly objective, nontheological studies of religion have been the priority of the behaviorists-anthropologists, psychologists or sociologists-men still capable of believing in such claptrap as souls--

    Another Roadside Attraction Robbins, Tom 1971

  • Luther puts the point in homely, deliberately nontheological terms, like speeches in a domestic drama:

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas ERNEST TUVESON 1968

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