Talk:theurge

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Ant takers? Not in the OED (it has theurgist). SemperBlotto 12:09, 22 December 2006 (UTC)

Hmmm. My first glance at it suggested it was a misspelling of "the urge" but it seems to get google book hits. Is it more important that we inform our readers it is more often a misspelling, or that it is a rare alternate spelling? --Connel MacKenzie 15:57, 22 December 2006 (UTC)

Seems to be current intentional use both among scholars of ancient pagan cults/occultism, as well as modern fantasy literature. Here are some cites, which I've added at the article. --Jeffqyzt 15:58, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

• 1803 (pub.), Johann Lorenz Mosheim (Archibald Maclaine trans.), An Ecclesiastical History, Ancient and Modern, from the Birth of Christ to the Beginning of the Eighteenth Century Page 174

  He acknowledged Christ to be a most excellent man, the friend of God, the admirable theurge; he denied, however, that Jesus designed to abolish entirely the worship of demons...

• 1995, Brian P. Copenhaver and Trismegistus Hermes, Hermetica, Cambdridge University Press (1995) Page xxv

  The father was known simply as a philosopher, the son as a theurge...

• 1996, Robert Turcan, The Cults of the Roman Empire, Blackwell Publishing (1996), Page 285

  In other words, the theurge makes himself known to and recognized by the gods, like the mysta in his initiation, by means of 'symbols', signs or passwords (synthemata).

• 2001, Victoria Nelson, The Secret Life of Puppets, Harvard University Press (2001), Page 54

  In this process the human mediator's own role was significantly increased from that of middleman theurge to god-imitating demiurge...bringing the images to life...[and]...giving them external form as spirits as well.

RFV passed. DAVilla 03:25, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

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