Nontheistic vs Nonatheistic - What's the difference?
nontheistic | nonatheistic |
Not believing in any gods
* {{quote-magazine
, date = 1866-02-15
, title = Critical Notices: The Heavenly Father: Lectures on Modern Atheism
, first = Peter
, last = Bayne
, magazine = (The Fortnightly Review)
, volume = 4
, issue = 19
, page = 119
, pageurl = http://books.google.com/books?id=nyYeAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA119&dq=nontheistic
, passage = 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...
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* {{quote-book
, year = 1892
, first = Charles Force
, last = Deems
, title = The Outlook of Theology
, magazine = Christian Thought
, volume = 9
, publisher = Wilbur B. Ketcham
, location = New York
, page = 440
, pageurl = http://books.google.com/books?id=0LMnAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA440&dq=non-theistic
, passage = 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.
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* {{quote-book
, year = 1895
, title = Theism: being the Baird lecture for 1876
, first = Robert
, last = Flint
, authorlink = Robert Flint
, section = Lecture II
, publisher = William Blackwood and Sons
, edition = 9th
, page = 30
, pageurl = http://books.google.com/books?id=EBHXAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA30&dq=non-theistic
, passage = 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.
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* {{quote-book
, year = 1960
, title = American Christianity: 1820-1960
, first = Hilary Shelton
, last = Smith
, ol = 11132932M
, isbn = 9780684157450
, url = http://books.google.com/books?id=svHQAAAAMAAJ&dq=nontheistic
, passage = Thus what he called "natural religion" must not be confused with modern brands of naturalistic or nontheistic religion.
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*{{quote-book
, year = 1991
, first = Marie Louise
, last = Baird
, by = H.F. de Wit
, title = Contemplative Psychology
, url = http://books.google.com/books?id=LyclAAAAYAAJ
, isbn = 9780820702285
, page = 156
, passage = The nontheistic tradition of Buddhism generally takes the view that people (with each other's help) can liberate themselves.
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