thnetopsychism
/θnɛtəˈsaɪkɪz(ə)m/
thnetopsychism noun: the doctrine that when the body dies, the intangible soul and/or spirit also goes to sleep or in other words the person's consciousness ceases until the resurrection, and that the soul and/or spirit must be awoken and both are to be called back to life at the Day of Judgement. This was first recorded as taught by the Thnētopsȳchītæ, a third century sect of Christianity in Arabia, and is based on 1 Timothy 6:16, an epistolary doxology addressed to the God who alone has immortality.
Noun
thnetopsychism (uncountable)
- The doctrine that when the body dies, the intangible soul and/or spirit also goes to sleep or in other words the person's consciousness ceases until the resurrection, and that the soul and/or spirit must be awoken and both are to be called back to life at the Day of Judgement. This was first recorded as taught by the Thnētopsȳchītæ, a third century sect of Christianity in Arabia, and is based on 1 Timothy 6:16, an epistolary doxology addressed to the God who alone has immortality.
- On the contrary, the metaphor of “soul sleeping” bridges what for thnetopsychism amounts to two sharply polarized concepts: on the one hand, that of death and nothingness in all its finality, and, on the other, that of eternal life.2012, Henry Weinfield, The Blank-Verse Tradition from Milton to Stevens: Freethinking and the Crisis of Modernity
Origin of thnetopsychism
From ecclesiastical Ancient Greek θνητόψῡχος (thnētópsūkhos), from θνητός (thnētós, “mortal”) and ψῡχή (psūkhḗ, “soul”) + -ism.
Questions about thnetopsychism
- What does thnetopsychism mean?
- Thnetopsychism means the doctrine that when the body dies, the intangible soul and/or spirit also goes to sleep or in other words the person's consciousness ceases until the resurrection, and that the soul and/or spirit must be awoken and both are to be called back to life at the Day of Judgement. This was first recorded as taught by the Thnētopsȳchītæ, a third century sect of Christianity in Arabia, and is based on 1 Timothy 6:16, an epistolary doxology addressed to the God who alone has immortality.
- What part of speech is thnetopsychism?
- Thnetopsychism is a noun.
- How do you pronounce thnetopsychism?
- Thnetopsychism is pronounced /θnɛtəˈsaɪkɪz(ə)m/.
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