syncretism (singkretism)

[F. syncré tis me = Sp. sincretismo, became specifically restricted to the system of a school of thinkers within the Luther an Church. He is a carnal replotting syncretism, and attempting the A tendency to syncretism-to a mingling of heteroge. neo us religions - was a notable characteristic of the age contemporaneous with the introduction of Christianity. G. P. Fisher, Beginnings of Christianity, p. 72. syncretist (sing'krētist), n. [ syncret - ism + -ist .] One who attempts to blend incongruous tenets, or doctrines of different schools or churches, into a system. May not an ancient book be supposed to be the production of a series of imitators, editors, and syncretists, none of whom is exactly a deliberate forger? Westminster Rev., CXXV. 229. Specifically- (a) A follower of Calixtus (1586-1656), a Luther an divine, and profe or of theology at Helmstedt, who endeavored to frame a religious system which should unite the different Christian denominations, Protestant and Catholic. (b) One of a school, in the sixteenth century, which attempted to mediate between the Platonic and Aristo tel i an philosophies. Also used attributively: as, a syncretist religious system.