Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An adherent of social or philosophical pluralism.
- noun Ecclesiastical A person who holds two or more offices, especially two or more benefices, at the same time.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A clergyman who holds at the same time two or more ecclesiastical benefices.
- noun An advocate of the theory that the human races have developed from a number of ancestral forms: opposed to monogenist.
- noun In general, one who recognizes a plurality, as of causes, reals, etc.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Eccl.), engraving A clerk or clergyman who holds more than one ecclesiastical benefice.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A person who holds multiple
offices , especially aclergyman who holds more than oneecclesiastical benefice . - noun An
advocate ofpluralism (in all senses)
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a philosopher who believes that no single explanation can account for all the phenomena of nature
- noun someone who believes that distinct ethnic or cultural or religious groups can exist together in society
- noun a cleric who holds more than one benefice at a time
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Examples
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The majority of the Founding Fathers in the next century would subscribe to what I call pluralist identity - believing in civil rights and liberties, religious freedom and tolerance.
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The majority of the Founding Fathers in the next century would subscribe to what I call pluralist identity - believing in civil rights and liberties, religious freedom and tolerance.
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In the context of education, for instance, an external pluralist is likely to think that public schools should perhaps steer clear of contentious topics such as religion, or perhaps better still, that school choice programs should be implemented to avoid the need to agree on a common curriculum.
Pluralisms 2009
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It is a battle between views I would describe as pluralist versus technocratic.
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It is a battle between views I would describe as pluralist versus technocratic.
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It is a battle between views I would describe as pluralist versus technocratic.
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I don't say this out of a kind of Christian chauvinism – wanting to defend my corner, The presence of Christians in communities like Iraq and Syria is actually part of what you might call a pluralist, tolerant, co-existent tradition in Middle-Eastern Arab society which is itself under threat.
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What Talisse refers to as his pluralist objection states that Deweyan democracy, or John Dewey's theory of democracy as contemporary Dewey scholars understand it, resembles a thick account, that is, a theory establishing a set of prior restraints on the values that can count as legitimate within a democratic community, and thus is incompatible with pluralism, at least insofar as contemporary political theorists define that term.
Legal Theory Blog 2009
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I sometimes surprise people who expect me to categorize myself as a "pluralist", but so far I'm sticking with the label "inclusivist".
Other Religions in Sunday School James F. McGrath 2009
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A natural law based system can accept a certain aboult of pluralism, but a "pluralist" system is simply unworkable under the Natural Law.
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