Metamorphist

Quick meaning: Metamorphist is a noun meaning (Christianity, theology) One who believes that the body of Christ was merged into God when he ascended.

Meaning

(Christianity, theology) One who believes that the body of Christ was merged into God when he ascended.

More Meanings

1. (Islam, theology) One who believes that some species were not part of the original creation but arose as the transformed souls of sinners.
2. A metamorphic rock.
3. One who undergoes transformation to take on various forms.
4. One who believes in social transformation.
5. (historical, geology) Believing in the metamorphic formation of nonsedimentary rocks and minerals.
6. (historical, geology) A proponent of one side of an early geological controversy in the late 19th and early 20th century who held that differences between various nonsedimentary rocks and minerals could be explained by metamorphic processes rather than the opposing viewpoint that these differences resulted from cooling of different types of magma.

Example Sentences

As a metamorphist from the onset ( 1934-1935 ) I am afraid I might be partial.

On the other hand, there was the metamorphist position that some species were not created at all; instead they were brought into existence through metamorphosis in later epochs, after which they enjoyed a biological fitness no less than that of created species.

In commenting on Mr. Ussher's views as they had been presented to the Society by his critic, Mr. Hudleston proceeded to say the Mr. Ussher was an ingenious metamorphist, who had evaded contradiction by assuming certain rocks not now existing to have been pre-Devonian, rocks obviously now beyond the disproof of chemical analysis.

Concerning the progeny of the transfigured sinners, Muslim scholars split into two groups, which Cook figuratively designated as "creationists" and "metamorphists.” The former held that swine and monkeys were created in the form they exist today, whereas the latter believed that their contemporary apes and swine were the progeny of the transfigured sinners.

Word Forms

• metamorphists

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include hylomorphist, metempsychosist, metamorph, anchimetamorphism, hypostasis, metamorphosis.

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