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Particularist vs Particularism - What's the difference?

particularist | particularism |

In theology|lang=en terms the difference between particularist and particularism

is that particularist is (theology) adhering to particularism while particularism is (theology) the principle that only certain people are chosen by god for salvation.

As nouns the difference between particularist and particularism

is that particularist is one who holds to particularism while particularism is (theology) the principle that only certain people are chosen by god for salvation.

As an adjective particularist

is (theology) adhering to particularism.

particularist

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • One who holds to particularism.

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (theology) Adhering to particularism.
  • Showing excessive devotion to one's own region, nation, party etc.; partisan.
  • * 2002 , , The Great Nation , Penguin 2003, p. 272:
    • The province's identity was fixed on traditionalist and historical attachment to particularist privilege.

    Antonyms

    * universalist

    Related terms

    * particularistic

    particularism

    English

    (wikipedia particularism)

    Noun

    (-)
  • (theology) The principle that only certain people are chosen by God for salvation.
  • An exclusive focus on a particular group, area, sect etc.
  • (politics) The principle that individual states, races of a federation etc. may act independently of a central authority.
  • *2011 , (Norman Davies), Vanished Kingdoms , Penguin 2012, p. 221:
  • *:Despite the dominance of Castile and the stream of centralizing measures flowing from the new capital in Madrid, Aragonese particularism continued to make itself felt right up to the early eighteenth century.