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Definition of Nomism
1. Noun. (context: theology) The following of religious laws or commandments as the chief aspect of religiousness. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Nomism
1. strict adherence to moral law [n -S] : NOMISTIC [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nomism
Literary usage of Nomism
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Moral Evolution by George Harris (1896)
"nomism is observance of laws, — legalism. Antinomianism is freedom from ...
nomism reduces Christianity to the legal- ism of numerous rales and observances. ..."
2. Judaism and Christianity: A Sketch of the Progress of Thought from Old by Crawford Howell Toy (1891)
"There was needed a more piercing insight and a more lofty spirituality to convert
Jewish nomism into a true spiritual life. 6. It cannot be considered an ..."
3. Theology as an Empirical Science by Douglas Clyde Macintosh (1919)
"On the one hand extreme nomism, or determinism, maintains that the reign of law is
... At the opposite extreme from this one-sided nomism, or determinism, ..."
4. Judaism by Israel Abrahams (1907)
"'nomism,' it has been truly said, 'has always formed a fundamental trait of
Judaism, one of whose chief aims has ever been to mould life in all its varying ..."
5. The British and Foreign Evangelical Review and Quarterly Record of Christian by James Oswald Dykes, James Stuart Candlish, Hugh Sinclair Paterson, Joseph Samuel Exell (1872)
"and Pessimism," " Conscience," the "Collision of Duties," " nomism and Anti-nomism."
The book is a splendid one; and, indeed, we do not remember any work on ..."
6. The Harvard Theological Review by Harvard Divinity School (1921)
"This 'nomism' is reflected in the idea of God (chap. 11): Where legalism is the
essence of religion, religion is the right behavior of man before God, ..."
7. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1911)
"It is not unthinkable, indeed, that in postexilic times, even during a postexilic
nomism, a sort of undercurrent of prophetism came to the surface to oppose ..."
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