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Definition of Acosmism
1. n. A denial of the existence of the universe as distinct from God.
Definition of Acosmism
1. Noun. A denial of the existence of the universe as distinct from God. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Acosmism
1. disbelief in the eternal world [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Acosmism
Literary usage of Acosmism
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A System of Christian Doctrine by Isaak August Dorner (1880)
"Mere Transcendence would lead us at once to acosmism. For if God is simply
absolutely transcendent, there is no coherence between Him and the world, ..."
2. Genesis of the Social Conscience: The Relation Between the Establishment of by Henry Sylvester Nash (1897)
"The man of the Old Testament could understand neither Marcus Aurelius nor the
artist. It has been said that Spinoza's acosmism has a Jewish root, ..."
3. The Monist by Hegeler Institute (1904)
"... not acosmism, as Spinoza, the God-intoxicated man, would hold it, but atheism,
as the world-intoxicated scientist is bound to hold it in the end. ..."
4. The history of philosophy from Thales to Comte by George Henry Lewes (1880)
"Observe, I say 'logically ' there is but little difference; spiritually, the
difference is profound. His acosmism may denote what is scarcely ..."
5. The Philosophy of Religion on the Basis of Its History by Otto Pfleiderer (1888)
"The exact parallel is also interesting, which may be seen in the dialectical
advance, both with Indians and Greeks, from naturalistic pantheism to acosmism ..."
6. Christian Dogmatics: A Compendium of the Doctrines of Christianity by Hans Martensen, William Urwick (1874)
"This is acosmism ... such is the ontological in relation to the inner world of
self-consciousness ; the result is the same, to wit, acosmism. ..."
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