dominionist
- adjective
- /dəˈmɪnjənɪst/
- US
- The dominionist view emphasizes that public policies should reflect Christian teachings.
Examples
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Hasn't the GOP's success in recent years been due to its perpetual pandering to the dominionist evangelicals?
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And where do you get these Dominionist beliefs?
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The reality is that we are rapidly morphing into a Dominionist Christian Fascist state.
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If this group of dominionist Christians was inclusive of all Christians, you might have an argument, but I don't think they are all inclusive.
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The Acton Institute funds events featuring dominionist leaders including Gary North, who claims that the Bible mandates free market capitalism or "Biblical Capitalism."
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Such convictions often crave the sorts of sovereignty and absolutism—like the dominionist passions of born-again Pentecostals.
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Schaeffer may be able to speak to the dominant, dominionist thinking among evangelicals in the 1980s, but the leaders of that era are dead, dying, or marginalized, progressively eclipsed by leaders in the emerging church, who make the fundamentalist evangelicals pretty nervous indeed.
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Many dominionist groups advocate for a government that operates under their religious beliefs.
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The dominionist ideology argues for a society where laws are based on biblical principles.
Synonyms
Religious leaders rule using sacred texts as law
Supporting a close link between church and state, with the government using its power to help the church
How Theocratic
Surface Forms
Morphology
dominionist = dominionism (semi-transparent) = dominion + ist
The word is a regular -ist derivative of 'dominionism', but the specific religious-political doctrine is specialized and not fully predictable from 'dominion' alone.
Etymology
Dominionist comes from dominion, a word that means 'rule' or 'control' and shares the same root as dominate, so it describes ideas that support putting religious rule into government.