What's the difference between theism and trinitarianism?

Theism


Definition:

  • (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.