Under Napata and Meroë, a syncretistic architectural style developed. From Wordnik.com. [b. Economy, Technology, Society, and Culture] Reference
Bishop Heber that reveals Hemans's abandoned plan for a syncretistic poem along the lines of Volney's. From Wordnik.com. [Notes on 'The Ruins of Empire: Nationalism, Art, and Empire in Hemans's Modern Greece'] Reference
Hook aspired to a non-syncretistic synthesis between what he took to be the essential theses of pragmatism and the empirically defensible aspects of Marxism. From Wordnik.com. [Sidney Hook] Reference
This final purity can never, of course, be expressed by any verbal statement of the philosophy, however undogmatic that statement may be, however deliberately syncretistic. From Wordnik.com. [The Perennial Philosophy] Reference
Pico's enthusiasm for this new amalgam quickly encouraged him to formulate his own new syncretistic approach and this eventually led to his censure by the papal authorities. From Wordnik.com. [Elijah Delmedigo] Reference
Christianity thus showed itself to be syncretistic. From Wordnik.com. [The Mission and Expansion of Christianity in the First Three Centuries] Reference
But we need no names here, as a syncretistic, ascetic. From Wordnik.com. [History of Dogma, Volume 1 (of 7)] Reference
This young lady was a Buddhist with syncretistic leanings. From Wordnik.com. [Triablogue] Reference
In fifteenth-century Benares the syncretistic tendencies of. From Wordnik.com. [Songs of Kabir] Reference
Cao Dai is syncretistic, combining elements of many faiths. From Wordnik.com. [Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]] Reference
The field was prepared for the formation of syncretistic sects. From Wordnik.com. [History of Dogma, Volume 1 (of 7)] Reference
It is a syncretistic movement with roots in pre-Christian times. From Wordnik.com. [GetReligion] Reference
These three syncretistic religions all opposed the imperial cultus. From Wordnik.com. [The Mission and Expansion of Christianity in the First Three Centuries] Reference
Again, this was in keeping with shamanism's avowedly syncretistic worldview. From Wordnik.com. [neweurasia.net] Reference
Alexandria too, being a great commercial centre, had become somewhat syncretistic. From Wordnik.com. [The Three Additions to Daniel: A Study.] Reference
Religious Science, and Roman Catholicism are three syncretistic religions, for example. From Wordnik.com. [Pyromaniacs] Reference
But these measures did not go beyond the syncretistic tendency which Constantine had shown for a long time. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery] Reference
The Pseudo-Clementines may, to some extent, be used, though with caution, in determining the doctrines of syncretistic. From Wordnik.com. [History of Dogma, Volume 1 (of 7)] Reference
It is syncretistic in the extreme to think that his prayers are to a non-specific deity somehow representing all faiths. From Wordnik.com. [Anglican Mainstream] Reference
Owing to the heterogeneous character of their apparatus, these syncretistic formations seem often to be totally incongruous. From Wordnik.com. [The Mission and Expansion of Christianity in the First Three Centuries] Reference
The Gospel, at the time when it was proclaimed among the Jews, was not only law, but theology, and indeed syncretistic theology. From Wordnik.com. [History of Dogma, Volume 1 (of 7)] Reference
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