Meaning of pre-theistic | Babel Free

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Of or relating to a point preceding the development of theism.

Examples

“If we look⟳ at the controlling source of its virtue, the potentially sacred substance of the human body, and compare⟳ the earliest forms of consecration, we see⟳ that the theory of anointing leads us back to pre-theistic and even pre-fetishistic times.”

“In order⟳ to demonstrate⟳ the pre-theistic or pre-deistic origin of religion from primitive simplicity, genealogical scholars elaborated a standard method of evolutionary stratification.”

“"Though not jeopardizing the human status of its practitioners, however, the lowest, dream-related form⟳ of animism was categorically pretheistic in Tylor's scheme, merely furnishing the ground upon which gods would later develop⟳".”

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