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词汇 universalist
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Definition of universalist in English:

universalist

noun juːnɪˈvəːs(ə)lɪstˌjunəˈvərsələst
  • 1Christian Theology
    A person who believes that all humankind will eventually be saved.

    〔基督教神学〕普救论者

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Quakers range right across from very Christo-centric friends, right through to what we call universalists.
    • Thus, it would appear that he is a universalist in the fullest sense of the term.
    • Ultimately he is a universalist who believes that all souls will be reconciled to God, including the souls of Satan and his minions.
    • I see no reason, then, for ranking Paul among the universalists.
    • Moody argued that Paul was no universalist but rather a missionary.
  • 2A person advocating loyalty to and concern for others without regard to national or other allegiances.

    普爱论者;博爱论者

    as modifier it is a policy founded on universalist principles
    Example sentencesExamples
    • I am with the universalist liberals on both counts, with reservations.
    • Whereas most national identities derive from a people's geographic or ethnolinguistic origins, they noted, the American identity was grounded in the universalist ideas and values of the Enlightenment.
    • Mandatory health coverage will drive down health care costs, and its universalist dimension and market-based orientation should appeal to the left as well as the right.
    • There was a time, of course, when most progressives were universalists.
    • It's entirely possible to be a reformer at home and a universalist abroad.
    • Although a man of the universalist left, Jimmy understood the lure and limited value of black nationalism for African-Americans.
    • Such a universalist stance obviously includes preserving Medicare and Social Security, as the Democrats emphasized in the 2000 campaign.
    • As usual, the most vigorous and effective defense of the particular comes as part of a universalist demand for emancipation.
    • The ‘three great religions’ are all susceptible to this charge, although their adherents may aptly and justly interpret the texts in a humanist or universalist way.
    • Money spent both to satisfy universalist dogma and on avoiding a means-test is money paid to the better off individual who does not need it, and kept from the poorer and needier.
    • For the universalist left, nationalism was a trap used by an entrenched ruling class to prevent workers from understanding their own interests.
    • It is a conservative viewpoint in the true sense, which makes it the antithesis of contemporary neoconservatism and neoliberalism, as well as all universalist ideologies.
    • We uphold a universalist orientation to the problems facing the world.
    • It is an accomplished group of self-made liberal middle-class professionals with a secular and universalist outlook.
    • Reacting against the universalist claims of the French Revolution, German romantics of the late 18th and early 19th centuries such as Fichte and Herder invoked blood, soil and the spirit of the Volk.
    • Stranded out on a limb, the most important need in the coming years for the individual in the South is for the solidarity of democratic, humanistic and universalist currents in both the North and the South.
    • They think of themselves, so the explanation goes, as the real defenders of universalist ideals.
    • Was he a nationalist rather than a universalist?
    • It is in the nature of a universalist religion to evince a lack of regard for borders and nationalities.
    • And finally, we maintain a progressive identity that has always accented universalist values, ever more crucial in the present day.
adjective juːnɪˈvəːs(ə)lɪstˌjunəˈvərsələst
  • 1Christian Theology
    Relating to universalists.

    〔基督教神学〕普救论者的

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Both universalist and conditionalist views of hell draw some contemporary support.
    • With the advent of a universalist, Christian monotheism, the notion was added that all these outsiders were by definition not only uncivilized but ungodly.
    • I got the impression he was coming from a universalist background, but he could have been talking about predestination.
    • I think it clearly is a universalist faith in the sense that everybody, no matter what race, religion or creed, has a potential for being true sons and daughters of the eternal.
    • Today's readings share an unmistakably universalist thrust, extending God's good news of salvation beyond insiders.
  • 2Universal in scope or character.

    普遍性的;广泛性的;通用性的

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The Bolsheviks seized power in Russia only weeks before the 14 Points speech, and Marxist-Leninism was to prove a powerful, similarly universalist, rival to liberal democracy for the rest of the 20th century.
    • Still, it is safe to say that the vast majority of the demonstrators who gathered in Seattle advanced universalist criticisms of free-market capitalism and corporate globalization.
    • To compare their republic's democratic idealism to Rome, with its conquering legions, subjugation of peoples and universalist claims to law and order ignites a simmering anger.
    • I'm always wary of narratives that try to prove a point about human psychology; it's usually some trite universalist nonsense about sex or gender.
    • The pursuit of universalist truths has been given a knocking by the rise of postmodernism, he argues.
    • In the early 20th century, against a background of thinking that rejected the universalist aesthetic of the classical tradition and saw period styles as the key to true historical understanding, Mannerism came to be re-evaluated.
    • The work of Henry Reynolds (and that of others less distinguished) has come under criticism for its universalist approach, bipolar categorisation, insensitivity to gender, and uncomplicated morality.
    • It all seemed a bit too easy and specific, not cool and abstract enough too conform to the universalist ambitions of modernism.
    • In effect they are denying the universalist character of Buddhism are returning it to the particularistic mould of ethnic religion in contravention of the clear injunctions of the Buddha.
    • It is important to emphasize that such a conception of historical interconnections does not situate itself in universalist claims about Shakespeare's representation of history.
    • He preached a universalist message to people whose minds were firmly locked into the local.
    • It seems clear that a universalist prescription, cast an actor of any ethnicity for any part, runs into serious objections.
    • The novel stakes out a universalist position that valorizes a basic, transcultural category of the female body, especially as and when that body is subjected to disfigurement on account of patriarchal ideologies.
    • His essay in the catalogue takes numerous swipes at universalist definitions of art and at the notion of art's autonomy from the larger social world.
    • Examined purely structurally, this might represent a prototypical ‘exchange of men between women’ that would disrupt Levi-Strauss's universalist claims.
    • It's also unsurprising that after the nightmare of the first world war, so many people around the world were inclined, in an era of modernism, to imagine peace in universalist terms.
    • In the view of the critics, sweeping universalist generalizations based on such a tiny and unrepresentative sample of the world's languages are at best premature and at worst absurd.
    • Higonnet suggests that in the pursuit of universalist fraternity, however, Jacobin language lost its original libertarian meaning and that Jacobinism became a kind of sectarian religion as it moved from sensibility to ideology.
    • Liberalism had come to seem not a universalist creed, something for all Americans to embrace, but a particularist creed.
    • But it is an interpretation, distinct from the universalist interpretation of the verse that you are probably more familiar with, and it explains why you missed it in the listing.

Derivatives

  • universalistic

  • adjective juːnɪvəːs(ə)ˈlɪstɪk
    • He also posed the problem in a fundamental way: both secular rationality and traditional Christianity had been accustomed to think of themselves as universalistic, but it was very obvious that this claim to universality was contested.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • But the major Anglo-American political philosophers have mostly been either Kantians or utilitarians - the two schools of ethics that are most universalistic and promise to be able to do the most by way of argument.
      • Social scientists have inquired into whether the religious and societal notions of behavior in different societies confirm or come in conflict with the secular and universalistic approach to human rights.
      • As he writes, ‘the level of knowledge and understanding of God's Word corresponds to each stage of the history of the people of God’ and Christ and his universalistic message is the key for a Christian reading of the Bible.
      • But it's a serious joke, a challenge to the arrogance of universalistic systems everywhere.

Definition of universalist in US English:

universalist

nounˌyo͞onəˈvərsələstˌjunəˈvərsələst
  • 1Christian Theology
    A person who believes that all humankind will eventually be saved.

    〔基督教神学〕普救论者

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Quakers range right across from very Christo-centric friends, right through to what we call universalists.
    • Ultimately he is a universalist who believes that all souls will be reconciled to God, including the souls of Satan and his minions.
    • Moody argued that Paul was no universalist but rather a missionary.
    • Thus, it would appear that he is a universalist in the fullest sense of the term.
    • I see no reason, then, for ranking Paul among the universalists.
    1. 1.1usually Universalist A member of an organized body of Christians who hold the belief that all humankind will eventually be saved.
      〔基督教神学〕普救论者
  • 2A person advocating loyalty to and concern for others without regard to national or other allegiances.

    普爱论者;博爱论者

    as modifier it is a policy founded on universalist principles
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Reacting against the universalist claims of the French Revolution, German romantics of the late 18th and early 19th centuries such as Fichte and Herder invoked blood, soil and the spirit of the Volk.
    • Mandatory health coverage will drive down health care costs, and its universalist dimension and market-based orientation should appeal to the left as well as the right.
    • I am with the universalist liberals on both counts, with reservations.
    • Although a man of the universalist left, Jimmy understood the lure and limited value of black nationalism for African-Americans.
    • Was he a nationalist rather than a universalist?
    • It is an accomplished group of self-made liberal middle-class professionals with a secular and universalist outlook.
    • Money spent both to satisfy universalist dogma and on avoiding a means-test is money paid to the better off individual who does not need it, and kept from the poorer and needier.
    • The ‘three great religions’ are all susceptible to this charge, although their adherents may aptly and justly interpret the texts in a humanist or universalist way.
    • It is a conservative viewpoint in the true sense, which makes it the antithesis of contemporary neoconservatism and neoliberalism, as well as all universalist ideologies.
    • It is in the nature of a universalist religion to evince a lack of regard for borders and nationalities.
    • There was a time, of course, when most progressives were universalists.
    • It's entirely possible to be a reformer at home and a universalist abroad.
    • As usual, the most vigorous and effective defense of the particular comes as part of a universalist demand for emancipation.
    • Whereas most national identities derive from a people's geographic or ethnolinguistic origins, they noted, the American identity was grounded in the universalist ideas and values of the Enlightenment.
    • Such a universalist stance obviously includes preserving Medicare and Social Security, as the Democrats emphasized in the 2000 campaign.
    • And finally, we maintain a progressive identity that has always accented universalist values, ever more crucial in the present day.
    • We uphold a universalist orientation to the problems facing the world.
    • For the universalist left, nationalism was a trap used by an entrenched ruling class to prevent workers from understanding their own interests.
    • They think of themselves, so the explanation goes, as the real defenders of universalist ideals.
    • Stranded out on a limb, the most important need in the coming years for the individual in the South is for the solidarity of democratic, humanistic and universalist currents in both the North and the South.
adjectiveˌyo͞onəˈvərsələstˌjunəˈvərsələst
  • 1Christian Theology
    Relating to universalists.

    〔基督教神学〕普救论者的

    Example sentencesExamples
    • With the advent of a universalist, Christian monotheism, the notion was added that all these outsiders were by definition not only uncivilized but ungodly.
    • I think it clearly is a universalist faith in the sense that everybody, no matter what race, religion or creed, has a potential for being true sons and daughters of the eternal.
    • Today's readings share an unmistakably universalist thrust, extending God's good news of salvation beyond insiders.
    • Both universalist and conditionalist views of hell draw some contemporary support.
    • I got the impression he was coming from a universalist background, but he could have been talking about predestination.
  • 2Universal in scope or character.

    普遍性的;广泛性的;通用性的

    Example sentencesExamples
    • His essay in the catalogue takes numerous swipes at universalist definitions of art and at the notion of art's autonomy from the larger social world.
    • I'm always wary of narratives that try to prove a point about human psychology; it's usually some trite universalist nonsense about sex or gender.
    • But it is an interpretation, distinct from the universalist interpretation of the verse that you are probably more familiar with, and it explains why you missed it in the listing.
    • The Bolsheviks seized power in Russia only weeks before the 14 Points speech, and Marxist-Leninism was to prove a powerful, similarly universalist, rival to liberal democracy for the rest of the 20th century.
    • It's also unsurprising that after the nightmare of the first world war, so many people around the world were inclined, in an era of modernism, to imagine peace in universalist terms.
    • The work of Henry Reynolds (and that of others less distinguished) has come under criticism for its universalist approach, bipolar categorisation, insensitivity to gender, and uncomplicated morality.
    • Liberalism had come to seem not a universalist creed, something for all Americans to embrace, but a particularist creed.
    • It all seemed a bit too easy and specific, not cool and abstract enough too conform to the universalist ambitions of modernism.
    • The pursuit of universalist truths has been given a knocking by the rise of postmodernism, he argues.
    • In effect they are denying the universalist character of Buddhism are returning it to the particularistic mould of ethnic religion in contravention of the clear injunctions of the Buddha.
    • Still, it is safe to say that the vast majority of the demonstrators who gathered in Seattle advanced universalist criticisms of free-market capitalism and corporate globalization.
    • Higonnet suggests that in the pursuit of universalist fraternity, however, Jacobin language lost its original libertarian meaning and that Jacobinism became a kind of sectarian religion as it moved from sensibility to ideology.
    • He preached a universalist message to people whose minds were firmly locked into the local.
    • It is important to emphasize that such a conception of historical interconnections does not situate itself in universalist claims about Shakespeare's representation of history.
    • In the view of the critics, sweeping universalist generalizations based on such a tiny and unrepresentative sample of the world's languages are at best premature and at worst absurd.
    • It seems clear that a universalist prescription, cast an actor of any ethnicity for any part, runs into serious objections.
    • In the early 20th century, against a background of thinking that rejected the universalist aesthetic of the classical tradition and saw period styles as the key to true historical understanding, Mannerism came to be re-evaluated.
    • Examined purely structurally, this might represent a prototypical ‘exchange of men between women’ that would disrupt Levi-Strauss's universalist claims.
    • To compare their republic's democratic idealism to Rome, with its conquering legions, subjugation of peoples and universalist claims to law and order ignites a simmering anger.
    • The novel stakes out a universalist position that valorizes a basic, transcultural category of the female body, especially as and when that body is subjected to disfigurement on account of patriarchal ideologies.
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