theo-, the-, -theism, -theist, -theistic +
(Greek: God, god, deity, divine)
atheous
1. Atheistic; impious.
2. Without God, neither accepting nor denying Him.
autotheism
1. The doctrine of God’s self-subsistence. The ascription of this attribute to the Second Person of the Trinity, as being “God of himself” and not merely “God of God”.
2. Self-deification.
3. The belief that one is God incarnate or that one is Christ.
4. Someone who worships himself or herself as a deity.
bithesim, dithesim
1. Belief in two equal gods.
2. The belief that the world is ruled by two equal and opposing forces or gods, one good and one evil.
egotheism
1. Self-deification or the elevation of oneself to the status of a god.
2. The deification of man's own conceptions of God, or the belief that man's conception of God is all that men can ever know of God
3. In a New Age context, Egotheism can mean the deification of oneself or claiming that one has the qualities of God.
entheomania
Obsessive zeal for religion or demonomania; religious insanity.
enthusiasm, enthusiastic
1. Passionate interest in or eagerness to do something.
2. Something that arouses a consuming interest.
3. Etymology: from Greek
enthousiasmos, from
enthousiazein "be inspired", from
entheos, "inspired, possessed by a god", from
en- "in" +
theos, "god"; also, “possession by (a) god”, formed from
enthous, “inspired”; literally “with (a) god in”;
divine inspiration.
A man with a passion gets his inspiration from God through an angel who is providing the writer with divine inspiration.
enthusiast
1. Someone who is very interested or involved in something; especially, somebody with a particular hobby.
2. Etymology: from Greek enthkousiaste,, "anyone inspired (by a god)", from enthous.
hecastotheism
The practice of investing all sorts of objects with supernatural powers.
henotheism
1. The worship of one god, that is, as the special god of a social group or occupation, while acknowledging or believing in the existence of other gods.
2. A kind of polytheism in which one god of the pantheon is raised over the others.
Coined by Friedrich Max Mueller (1823-1900), professor of comparative philology at Oxford, in his "Lecture on the Origin and Growth of Religion" (1878). It is also defined as, "the worship of one of a group of gods, in contrast with monotheism, which teaches that only one god exists." A henotheist is an adherent of henotheism.
hylotheism
1. The belief that God and the material world are the same.
2. The doctrine that God and matter or the material universe are identical; material pantheism.
hylotheist
A person who believes that God and the material world are the same.
Jehovah
The name of God in the Old Testament of the Bible.
misotheism
A hatred of God (or of gods).
We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
—Jonathan Swift
monotheism, monotheistic
The belief that there is only one God. This belief is found, for example, in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.
monotheist
Someone who believes that there is only one God and no other gods.
Theo Quiz #1.
Related religious-word units:
church;
dei-, div-;
ecclesi-;
fanati-;
hiero-;
idol-;-olatry;
zelo-.