Talk:theurge

Ant takers? Not in the OED (it has theurgist). SemperBlotto 12:09, 22 December 2006 (UTC)


 * Hmmm. My first glance at it suggested it was a misspelling of "the urge" but it seems to get google book hits.  Is it more important that we inform our readers it is more often a misspelling, or that it is a rare alternate spelling?  --Connel MacKenzie 15:57, 22 December 2006 (UTC)


 * Seems to be current intentional use both among scholars of ancient pagan cults/occultism, as well as modern fantasy literature. Here are some cites, which I've added at the article.  --Jeffqyzt 15:58, 18 January 2007 (UTC)


 * 1803 (pub.), Johann Lorenz Mosheim (Archibald Maclaine trans.), An Ecclesiastical History, Ancient and Modern, from the Birth of Christ to the Beginning of the Eighteenth Century Page 174
 * He acknowledged Christ to be a most excellent man, the friend of God, the admirable theurge; he denied, however, that Jesus designed to abolish entirely the worship of demons...
 * 1995, Brian P. Copenhaver and Trismegistus Hermes, Hermetica, Cambdridge University Press (1995) Page xxv
 * The father was known simply as a philosopher, the son as a theurge...
 * 1996, Robert Turcan, The Cults of the Roman Empire, Blackwell Publishing (1996),  Page 285
 * In other words, the theurge makes himself known to and recognized by the gods, like the mysta in his initiation, by means of 'symbols', signs or passwords (synthemata).
 * 2001, Victoria Nelson, The Secret Life of Puppets, Harvard University Press (2001), Page 54
 * In this process the human mediator's own role was significantly increased from that of middleman theurge to god-imitating demiurge...bringing the images to life...[and]...giving them external form as spirits as well.

RFV passed. DAVilla 03:25, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

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