Theism

Theism, a term applicable to any system of belief which takes as its starting-point the existence of One Personal God. It is thus opposed on different grounds to Athelsm (q.v.), Agnosticism (q.v.), Panthelsm (q.v.), and Polytheism (q v.). Theism differs from Deism in that the latter of necessity rejects all revelations lying outside and beyond the course of nature and denies that God sustains the world which He has created, whereas these points either may or may not be included in the creed of a thelst.