What's the difference between monotheistic and theistic?

Monotheistic


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to monotheism.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Once you accept this, it is quite easy for Hume to show why nothing in what we observe of the world justifies us reaching the conclusion that it was designed by anything like the God of the monotheist religions.
  • (2) Once any monotheistic religion is starting, feminism is finished.
  • (3) Yet the conversation Abdul was having with a Ted Cruz supporter named John about the parallels between the monotheistic religions was not what Trump rallies are typically about.
  • (4) Later this month, the president will visit the homes of the world’s three biggest monotheistic religions – Saudi Arabia, Israel and Rome – on a tour billed as a new beginning in the struggle against extremism, before attending a Nato session in Brussels and a G7 summit in Sicily.
  • (5) We Christians, together with the other monotheistic religions, believe that the universe is the fruit of a loving decision by the Creator, who permits man respectfully to use creation for the good of his fellow men and for the glory of the Creator; he is not authorized to abuse it, much less to destroy it,” he said.
  • (6) It was necessary to prepare a sound programme in which the muhajireen might take refuge as their jihad is the result of the glory to Islam and the monotheists.
  • (7) They are not Christians, they are Yazidis, an ethnically Kurdish people who follow a monotheistic religion all its own.
  • (8) There could be no bigger deal than to somehow bring together the world’s three great monotheistic religions – and, while he is in the region, slicing through the knots of the 70 years of Israeli-Palestinian conflict at the same time, which he said on Wednesday “ may be not as difficult as people have thought over the years ”.
  • (9) And the story of Moses has a strange echo in the life of Egyptian pharaoh Akhenaten, the first monotheist known to history.

Theistic


Definition:

  • (a.) Alt. of Theistical

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Link to video He shrugged off suggestions his religious views could one day become very relevant to public policy if he became, say, science minister, saying: “No, look, look … I’m interested in the people of Canning, I haven’t done science since year 12 at high school and I’m not interested in talking about curriculum or anything else, I’m interested in talking about Canning and public policy solutions for them.” When pressed again, he said: “I believe there was a God, I believe he was the first mover,” adding that there was “plenty of disagreement within Christianity itself about the specifics of creation, of theistic evolution”, before directing journalists to look up John Dickson, the founding director of the Centre for Public Christianity if they wanted a theological debate.

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