Meaning of shepherdism | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The theology of Norman Shepherd.
2. The theologically-based approach towards the environment propounded by Stephen M. Vantassel.
3. Pastoral life or occupation
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4. The keeping and tending of sheep.
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Examples

“True, the Hindu writers describe their Apollo, in the full enjoyment of a pastoral scene, worthy the birthplace of the Georgics; but the stern realities of Indian shepherdism form a woeful bathos to all this .”

“After a few introductory remarks on the most probable state of mankind in an early stage of savageism, shepherdism, pastoral life, agriculture, rude dwellings, towns and cities, Mr. Barker stated that the object of Buckle is to unfold the causes of man's advancement in art, science, and literature – i.e., physical, intellectual, and moral well-being.”

“But with all her admiration and comprehension of the beauties of nature and of a country life, André Léo is free from any attempt at "Arcadian-shepherdism."”

“and in summer tide, noles and their ladies loved to rove the woods and fields, and play at gentle shepherdism.”

“In the wide sheep pastures on the S. E. corner of Scotland, and those of England immediately bordering with it, where all the branches of the business of shepherdism are well understood, and diligently pursued, the active and intelligent occupants of sheep farms have, for some time, been in the custom of drawing small drains through all the moist parts of their pastures, to lead away the superfluous water which arises from springs, or descends from the hills in rains;”

“Gilnockie is only some eleven miles south-east from Caplefoot, where raiding has been displaced by shepherdism, and where the pipe and viol have superseded the Jeddart axe.”

“All his Ground, far and near, was thick covered with his fleecy Wealth: You would have thought by their bleatings that you were in Arcadia, and Shepherdism coming in fashion again”

“All these streams of thought—Biblical theology, Reconstructionism, the New Perspective on Paul, Shepherdism, Roman Catholicism, Gaffin and Bavinck, Vantilianism and Neoorthodoxy—- have contributed to the flood of Neolegalism in the churches .”

“Shepherdism accepts the reality of human power but seeks to integrate that power into a comprehensive view of human-nature relations.”

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