non-theological

Updated: June 15, 2025

For one thing, physical science had in the interval taken immense strides. This both dwarfed the sovereignty of theology and theological metaphysics, and indirectly disposed men's minds for non-theological theories of moral as well as of physical phenomena. In France, again, the objects of the attack were inelastic and unyielding.

John Morley - Diderot and the Encyclopædists (Vol 1 of 2)