nontheistic
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- Not believing in any gods.
- 1866 February 15, Peter Bayne, “Critical Notices: The Heavenly Father: Lectures on Modern Atheism”, in The Fortnightly Review, volume 4, number 19, page 119:
- The most influential contemporary school of non-theistic philosophers, the school of Comte, deny that either theism or atheism can be proved, and proscribe, with impartial rigour, all argument on either side...
- 1892, Charles Force Deems, “The Outlook of Theology”, in Christian Thought, volume 9, New York: Wilbur B. Ketcham, page 440:
- If the universe be regarded as self-existing, then men might hold to evolution, which is distinctly non-theistic, if not atheistic, not requiring a God for the reason that it is founded on the assumption that the possibility and potency and promise of all things reside in matter as matter.
- 1895, Robert Flint, Theism: being the Baird lecture for 1876, 9th edition, William Blackwood and Sons, Lecture II, page 30:
- But to determine the position and worth of a religion, whether theistic or non-theistic, it is indispensable that we have some notion of what religion is in itself.
- 1960, Hilary Shelton Smith, American Christianity: 1820-1960[1], →ISBN, →OL:
- Thus what he called "natural religion" must not be confused with modern brands of naturalistic or nontheistic religion.