(n.) The belief or acknowledgment of the existence of a God, as opposed to atheism, pantheism, or polytheism.
Example Sentences:
(1) The sketch that occasioned this lurch of theism on my part was a typical piece of Morrisian excess.
Trinitarianism
Definition:
(n.) The doctrine of the Trinity; the doctrine that there are three distinct persons in the Godhead.
Example Sentences:
(1) This means the new landscape of Stonehenge embodies modern Mammon's triumvirate of commoditisation, gambling and charity, just as it once did Trinitarian ideas of transcendence and immanence.
(2) The sin was so great that only his son (or God himself, depending on your Trinitarian theology) would do.
(3) We suggest that there is a trinitarian relationship between the meniscus, cartilage, and subchondral bone, in which structural changes in any one of the three causes secondary pathological adaptive changes in the other two.
(4) When she opens her door in Iowa City, a leafy college town where she teaches creative writing, the 65-year-old doesn't look agonised, or reclusive, or - an expectation raised by her enthusiasm for 18th-century theology and books with the word "Trinitarianism" in the title - in the Joyce Carol Oates school of brittle academics.