different between theocracy vs theism

English

Etymology

theo- +? -cracy, originally from Ancient Greek ????????? (theokratía, “rule of (a) God”), a term coined in the 1st century by Josephus (Against Apion 2.17) in reference to the kingdom of Israel. Attested in English from the 1630s, first by John Donne in a 1631 sermon: The Jews were onely under a Theocratie, an immediate government of God.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?i???k??s?/
• Homophone: theocrasy

Noun

theocracy (countable and uncountable, plural theocracies)

1. Government under the control of a state-sponsored religion.

   Tibet was a Buddhist theocracy ruled by the Dalai Lama.

2. Rule by a god.
   • For quotations using this term, see Citations:theocracy.

Hyponyms

• sharia law

Related terms

• theocrat
• theocratic

Translations

English

Etymology 1

Coined, theo- +? -ism. ultimately from Ancient Greek ???? (theós, “god”). Attested in English from 1678, theist being attested 16 years earlier in 1662. Cognate French théisme,, as in Diderot Principes de la philosophie morale (1745), which was probably borrowed from English.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??i?z?m/

Noun

theism (countable and uncountable, plural theisms)

1. Belief in the existence of at least one deity.
2. (strictly) Belief in the existence of a personal creator god, goddess, gods and/or goddesses present and active in the governance and organization of the world and the universe. The God may be known by or through revelation.
   • 1999, Jeaneane D. Fowler, Humanism: Beliefs & Practices, page 66

     The term stands in contradistinction to theism which, in its widest sense, means belief in a personal god, goddess, gods and/or goddesses.

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Translations

See also

• agnosticism
• deism
• divine
• pandeism

References

Etymology 2

Borrowing from New Latin thea (“tea”, noun) + English -ism.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ti?z?m/

Noun

theism (uncountable) (pathology)

2. A morbid condition resulting from excessive consumption of tea.

Synonyms

• theaism
• theinism

Coordinate terms

• caffeinism

References

Anagrams

• Themis, Thiems, hemist, mithes