theocentric
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- adjective
- /θiˈoʊsɛntrɪk/
- Formal
- Crisp's puritan retentions were sufficiently theocentric to render explicable his repudiation of other links in the puritan chain of salvation.
- theocentric perspective
Examples
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Ackermann's poetry tries to sterilize the epistemology of nature as a feminine force complicit with the reproduction of theocentric patriarchy.
Academic text (2000) -
Rather, it may be called theocentric, since, as I will show, interconnectedness and intrinsic value are grounded in God's presence in creation.
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Systematic theology does not make the truth of Christian doctrine a question but accepts it because of its theocentric orientation.
Academic text (2009) -
Furthermore, Missions is theocentric.
Blog text (1) -
The "theocentric christology" of Paul Knitter, John Hick, and others supports this argument.
Academic text (1998) -
An evangelical will consequently be Christocentric and not merely theocentric (as are the deists and a great many mystics).
Academic text (2014) -
And anthropologists, we are all "professionally centered" and suffer from a theocentric myopia that can be as disabling as an ethnocentric myopia.
Academic text (1990) -
But what the Youth and Religion study does reflect is a strongly "theocentric" perspective—one that sees religion as central and nonreligion as simply its lack or absence.
Academic text (2005) -
Nevertheless, foremost in the role of Amnon as the tragic hero is the fact that his forbidden passion conflicts with the prevailing belief in a just, theocentric cosmos.
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His theocentric beliefs shaped the way he viewed the world and his place in it.
Antonyms
How God-focused
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word theocentric comes from theo- meaning 'god' and -centric meaning 'center', like theology ('study of God') and egocentric ('self at the center'). So theocentric means putting God at the center of thought and life.