Multitheistic vs Multitheism - What's the difference?
multitheistic | multitheism | Derived terms |
Of or relating to multitheism.
*1889 , English Mechanic and World of Science , p. 441:
*:No ingenuity can show a method of constructing a pantheistic or multitheistic system, on any other base than that of revelation.
*1990 , Lauri Honko, Religion, Myth, and Folklore in the World's Epics , p. 176:
*:The people of Kaleva and Pohja do not represent primitiveness in this development, for with their varied occupations, highly-developed social systems and multitheistic religious concepts they already stand for a diverse culture.
*2003 , Gregory Thomas, How to Design Logos, Symbols and Icons , p. 29:
*:Since the purpose of the logo is to reach a multicultural and multitheistic audience, different color interpretations were considered.
*2006 , Ron McDonald, The Spirituality of Community Life: When We Come 'Round Right , p. 68:
*:Judaism was also monotheistic in a culture that that was multitheistic .
The existence of multiple forms of theism, as in a society.
*1885 , , p. 574:
*:But for rudeness of manners, idolatry, and multitheism , no people in the world ever went beyond them.
*1990 , Edward Malcolm Batley, Catalyst of Enlightenment, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing , p. 317:
*:This led to multitheism and idolatry, a condition which would have grown increasingly confused, had God not decided to give mankind some better direction.
*2001 , , God at 2000 , p. 48:
*:But I am convinced that it is time for us to understand all our theisms as aspects of a global multitheism .
*2003 , Maynard Solomon, Late Beethoven: Music, Thought, Imagination , p. 226:
*:By the unprecedented intensity of the finale's rhetoric, by the multitheism of its symbolism — the Greek mythic signposts, the Christian-medieval gestures embedded in the Andante maestoso, and the orientalism of the Alla marcia's "Turkish Music".
(archaic) Polytheism.
*1933 , Buddhist Society (London, England), The Middle Way , p. 90:
*:This forceful imposition of monotheism and impossibly high moral standards on the slow evolutionary process of multitheism in which people were still learning to live with their gods created guilt, anxiety and fear of the new god.