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单词 theocentric
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Definition of theocentric in English:

theocentric

adjectiveˌθɪə(ʊ)ˈsɛntrɪkˌTHēōˈsentrik
  • Having God as a central focus.

    a theocentric civilization
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Some depictions of heaven are strongly theocentric, portraying the blessed as caught up in an endless rapture of adoration; others are sociable and anthropocentric.
    • Thus, pluralism with a theocentric view of salvation has appeared.
    • He embraced nonhuman nature from bears to orchids to rattlesnakes as ‘fellow mortals,’ but his theocentric ethic, which was grounded in a God manifested within nature, did not explicitly include the entire human community.
    • And it is that great theocentric heart that we have so lost in the evangelical world today.
    • There in the New Testament ‘he finds a radically theocentric and socially radical Jesus with a decidedly human face.’
    • But those prayers were all cast in highly theocentric terms.
    • A theology focused anthropologically on ethical issues remains anthropocentric, not theocentric or Christocentric.
    • Hence, his message was theocentric rather than ethnocentric, anti-Semitic, or anything else.
    • When he did retreat it was to pray, and his resistance in the wilderness was absolutely theocentric: He had no tricks of his own to trump the devil, he simply had to recall, name, and claim his identity as centered in God.
    • The theology of Exodus is wholly theocentric and, moreover, it is creation-oriented; the Sabbath commandment fits that theological pattern.
    • Calvin's theocentric focus led him also to view the love of self as ‘a mortal plague that Christians must rip out.’
    • Schweiker describes his position as theocentric, but God seems to be a useful symbol that gives human agency seriousness and purpose by checking the unlimited expansion of human power.
    • Religion is anthropocentric; theology is theocentric.
    • While not every page of Scripture can be said to focus specifically on such a theocentric or monotheizing hermeneutic, it might be appropriate to read the exceptions in light of the greater whole.

Rhymes

androcentric, centric, concentric, eccentric, egocentric, ethnocentric, Eurocentric, geocentric, phallocentric
 
 

Definition of theocentric in US English:

theocentric

adjectiveˌTHēōˈsentrik
  • Having God as a central focus.

    a theocentric civilization
    Example sentencesExamples
    • While not every page of Scripture can be said to focus specifically on such a theocentric or monotheizing hermeneutic, it might be appropriate to read the exceptions in light of the greater whole.
    • But those prayers were all cast in highly theocentric terms.
    • Schweiker describes his position as theocentric, but God seems to be a useful symbol that gives human agency seriousness and purpose by checking the unlimited expansion of human power.
    • When he did retreat it was to pray, and his resistance in the wilderness was absolutely theocentric: He had no tricks of his own to trump the devil, he simply had to recall, name, and claim his identity as centered in God.
    • Some depictions of heaven are strongly theocentric, portraying the blessed as caught up in an endless rapture of adoration; others are sociable and anthropocentric.
    • A theology focused anthropologically on ethical issues remains anthropocentric, not theocentric or Christocentric.
    • He embraced nonhuman nature from bears to orchids to rattlesnakes as ‘fellow mortals,’ but his theocentric ethic, which was grounded in a God manifested within nature, did not explicitly include the entire human community.
    • Thus, pluralism with a theocentric view of salvation has appeared.
    • And it is that great theocentric heart that we have so lost in the evangelical world today.
    • The theology of Exodus is wholly theocentric and, moreover, it is creation-oriented; the Sabbath commandment fits that theological pattern.
    • There in the New Testament ‘he finds a radically theocentric and socially radical Jesus with a decidedly human face.’
    • Hence, his message was theocentric rather than ethnocentric, anti-Semitic, or anything else.
    • Calvin's theocentric focus led him also to view the love of self as ‘a mortal plague that Christians must rip out.’
    • Religion is anthropocentric; theology is theocentric.
 
 
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