universalism
IPA: junʌvˈɝsʌɫɪzʌm
noun
- The state of being universal; universality.
- (theology) The belief that all souls can attain salvation.
- A doctrine of universal salvation.
- Unitarian Universalism.
- The religion of the Universalist Church of America.
- Alternative form of Unitarian Universalism [A religion which encourages theological liberalism and an individual search for truth and the adherents of which draw on many different theological sources and have a wide range of beliefs and practices.]
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Examples of "universalism" in Sentences
- Moreover, this universalism is the source of Alroy's military success.
- There were people like Kabir Tulasi, Dadu Nanak and Peepa were propagating the idea of universalism of all faith.
- The so-called universalism of the fashionable Left's values for not all of them are like this is laid bare by the sheer contradiction of the argument Steel makes.
- So while Arminianism offers us a spurious universalism, which is at best a universalism of opportunity, Calvinism offers us the true universalism in the salvation of the race.
- The language of moral universalism is widely and repeatedly invoked as a cudgel with which to condemn Western policies, especially as they concern countries in the so-called “Third World” (and often justifiably so).
- This collapsing of historical specificity and political difference — so central to the 1940s faith in universalism and "normality" — stands in sharp contrast to Monty's potentially fascist insistence on ethnic differences and boundary-keeping.
- Albert Mohler, president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and a leading conservative evangelical, wrote that in the video Mr. Bell "affirms what can only be described as universalism," the belief that ultimately all people are "saved."
- The second major contribution made by the presence of the Church is what we might in shorthand call universalism - not in the technical theological sense, but simply meaning the conviction that every human agent is involved in either creating or frustrating a common good that relates to the whole human race.
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