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The belief or acknowledgment of the existence of a God, as opposed to atheism, pantheism, or polytheism.

The worship of strange gods. Jer. Taylor.

The doctrine of antitheists. -- An`ti*the*is"tic, a.

The disbelief or denial of the existence of a God, or supreme intelligent Being. Atheism is a ferocious system, that leaves nothing above us to excite awe, nor around us to awaken tenderness. R. Hall. Atheism and pantheism are often wrongly confounded. Shipley.

The doctrine of God's self-existence. [R.]

Belief in the existence of two gods; dualism.

Same as Pantheism. [R.]

The doctrine of those who maintain the existence of two gods or of two original principles (as in Manicheism), one good and one evil; dualism.

The deification of self. [R.]

Primitive religion in which each of several divinities is regarded as independent, and is worshiped without reference to the rest. [R.]

See Hylotheism.

of belief that matter is God, or that there is no God except matter and the universe; pantheism. See Materialism.

Hatred of God. De Quincey.

The doctrine or belief that there is but one God.

o God but the combined force and laws which are manifested in the existing universe; cosmotheism.

, or belief in, a plurality of gods. In the Old Testament, the gradual development of polytheism from the primitive monotheism may be learned. Shaff-Herzog.

The opinion or doctrine that the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are three distinct Gods.

t by the school of Herbert Spencer); -- opposed alike dogmatic skepticism and to dogmatic theism.

Pertaining to, implying, or containing, atheism; -- applied to things; as, atheistic doctrines, opinions, or books. Atheistical explications of natural effects. Barrow.

To confute; to prove the fallacy of. [Obs.] God never wrought miracle to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince it. Bacon.