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Synergism

The doctrine or theory, attributed to Melanchthon, that in the regeneration of a human soul there is a cooperation, or joint agency, on the part both of God and of man.

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Action 76% connected

A process or condition of acting or moving, as opposed to rest; the doing of something; exertion of power or force, as when one body acts on another;…

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Activity 76% connected

The state or quality of being active; nimbleness; agility; vigorous action or operation; energy; active force; as, an increasing variety of human act…

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Synergetic 74% connected

Working together; cooperating; as, synergetic muscles.

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Synergetic 74% connected

Working together; cooperating; as, synergetic muscles.

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Synergistic 74% connected

Of or pertaining to synergism.

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Synergistic 74% connected

Of or pertaining to synergism.

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Synergy 92% connected

Combined action

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Doctrine noun · 78% connection

a belief (or system of beliefs) accepted as authoritative by some group or school

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Ism noun · 78% connection

a belief (or system of beliefs) accepted as authoritative by some group or school

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Law noun · 78% connection

a rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society

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Natural law noun · 78% connection

a rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society

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Philosophical system noun · 78% connection

a belief (or system of beliefs) accepted as authoritative by some group or school

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Philosophy noun · 78% connection

a belief (or system of beliefs) accepted as authoritative by some group or school

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Rule of law noun · 78% connection

a state of order in which events conform to the law

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School of thought noun · 78% connection

a belief (or system of beliefs) accepted as authoritative by some group or school

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Adiaphorist noun · 78% connection

One of the German Protestants who, with Melanchthon, held some opinions and ceremonies to be indifferent or nonessential, which Luther…

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Animism noun · 78% connection

The belief that inanimate objects and the phenomena of nature are endowed with personal life or a living soul; also, in an extended se…

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Anthropomorphist noun · 78% connection

One who attributes the human form or other human attributes to the Deity or to anything not human.

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Anthropomorphite noun · 78% connection

One who ascribes a human form or human attributes to the Deity or to a polytheistic deity. Taylor. Specifically, one of a sect of anci…

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Back noun · 78% connection

In human beings, the hinder part of the body, extending from the neck to the end of the spine; in other animals, that part of the body…

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Benthamism noun · 78% connection

That phase of the doctrine of utilitarianism taught by Jeremy Bentham; the doctrine that the morality of actions is estimated and dete…

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Chase noun · 78% connection

A kind of joint by which an overlap joint is changed to a flush joint, by means of a gradually deepening rabbet, as at the ends of cli…

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Coadjuvancy noun · 78% connection

Joint help; cooperation.

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Coagency noun · 78% connection

Agency in common; joint agency or agent.

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Coefficiency noun · 78% connection

Joint efficiency; cooperation.

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Cooperation noun · 78% connection

the practice of cooperating; "economic cooperation"; "they agreed on a policy of cooperation"

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Creationism noun · 78% connection

The doctrine that a soul is specially created for each human being as soon as it is formed in the womb; -- opposed to traducianism.

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Existence noun · 78% connection

The state of existing or being; actual possession of being; continuance in being; as, the existence of body and of soul in union; the…

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Faculty noun · 78% connection

Ability to act or perform, whether inborn or cultivated; capacity for any natural function; especially, an original mental power or ca…

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Ghost noun · 78% connection

The disembodied soul; the soul or spirit of a deceased person; a spirit appearing after death; an apparition; a specter.

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Human adjective · 78% connection

Belonging to man or mankind; having the qualities or attributes of a man; of or pertaining to man or to the race of man; as, a human v…

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Immaterialism noun · 78% connection

The doctrine that external bodies may be reduced to mind and ideas in a mind; any doctrine opposed to materialism or phenomenalism, es…

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Intellect noun · 78% connection

The part or faculty of the human soul by which it knows, as distinguished from the power to feel and to will; sometimes, the capacity…

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