restorationist
- noun
- /ˌrɛstəˈreɪʃənɪst/
:
restauracionista
- Thomas and Alexander Campbell founded the Disciples of Christ, an institution that also mounted restorationist claims.
Examples
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According to the restorationists, neither position is healthy.
Academic text (1993) -
Restorationists, however, recognize the supreme importance of ecological values.
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The key element of this history from below, Thompson argues, is its restorationist challenge to the new market economy.
Academic text (2018) -
It raises a whole series of questions about the system for which the restorationist has to find answers.
Academic text (1993) -
For these reasons, the restorationist rejection of the old domination model seems not nearly complete enough to restore a healthy relationship between humans and nature.
Academic text (1993) -
This results in a reading at variance with the restorationists, who stand at the other end of the interpretive spectrum.
Academic text (2002) -
In the judgment of the restorationists, the exclusion of humans from nature deforms both.
Academic text (1993) -
The restorationists interpret Lumen gentium in the light of Vatican I, seeing the 20th-century council as a prolongation of the 19th-century council.
Academic text (2002) -
From the view of the champions of community, the unwillingness of restorationists to make room for an ethic of trust in our dealings with nature, and their reliance instead on a program of control, is precisely what makes them fellow travelers with the old-fashioned dominationists.
Academic text (1993) -
The restorationist advocates for a return to the practices of the early church in modern worship services.
Synonyms
2
7.7
A preacher who leads large religious meetings to bring people back to faith
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9.9
A person who leads meetings to bring people back to their faith
How Committed
Surface Forms
Morphology
restorationist = restoration (semi-transparent) = restoration + ist
Formally 'restoration' + '-ist' is clear, but the specific religious meaning ('restoring early Christianity') is a specialised semantic extension not fully predictable from form alone.
Etymology
Restorationist comes from the verb restore ('to bring back') and the ending -ist ('a person who does something'). So a restorationist in religion is someone who wants to bring back the original beliefs and simple practices of the early Christian church.