Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who believes in supernatural revelation.
- noun One who makes a revelation; especially, the author of the Apocalypse.
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- noun A person who believes in
divine revelation
Etymologies
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Examples
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'Christian humanism' is what people tend to call the first picture; the second is sometimes referred to as a 'revelationist' or 'redemptionist' view.
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Him, Pearl, Wolfowitz, Crystal and the whole U.S. front of the Zionist movement – along with the Christian revelationist allies who underpin them will detroy America unless we stop them …
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To be a revolutionist it is first necessary to be a revelationist.
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This lack of validated knowledge of the divine or lack of such warranted belief strengthens the hand of the agnostics, though it is also compatible with fideism or a revelationist view such as Barth's, which holds that man on his own can know nothing of God but must rely utterly on God's self-disclosure.
AGNOSTICISM KAI NIELSEN 1968
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To be a revolutionist it is first necessary to be a revelationist.
Creatures That Once Were Men Maksim Gorky 1902
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If Voltaire have not succeeded in proving himself a strong theist and a strong anti-revelationist, who is to succeed in proving himself one thing or the other in any matter whatsoever?
A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I (of II) Augustus De Morgan 1838
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