Word: theistic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...life of its possessor parallel to that filled by the orthodox belief in God." Seeger, who had voiced "skepticism about the existence of God," did not go so far as to call himself an atheist. Clark pointed this out, concluding that "the question is not, therefore, one between theistic and atheistic beliefs. We do not deal with or intimate any decision on that situation in this case...
...from Jewish Theological Seminary and a doctorate in psychology of religion from Harvard, expressed his disbelief in Judaism's traditional deity in After Auschwitz, a collection of essays published in 1966. There he argued that Hitler's holocaust was deathly proof that the "transcendent, theistic God of Jewish patriarchal monotheism" was no more. Strongly influenced by the late Paul Tillich, Rubenstein nonetheless concludes that there is a "Holy Nothingness" as the source of all being. This Holy Nothingness is totally beyond human comprehension or categorization, and he compares its relationship with man to that of an ocean...
Pope John addressed atheists as well as believers; yet Pacem in Terris is an unmistakably theistic work. This is hardly surprising in a papal pronouncement, but it clearly sets the encyclical apart from such purely secular documents as the United Nations' Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Time and again, Pope John argues that the rights of men and governments stem not solely from human consent but from the design of the Creator...
...theistic humanist," who stresses faith...