theurge

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Noun

theurge (plural theurges)

  1. One who works miracles, or persuades a god or spirit to perform a supernatural work.
    Synonym: theurgist
    • 1803, Johann Lorenz Mosheim, translated by Archibald Maclaine, 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, Trismegistus Hermes, Hermetica, Cambdridge: University Press, 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, 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, page 54:
      In this process the human mediator's own role was significantly increased from that of middleman theurge to god-imitating demiurge, not only bringing the images to life inside himself in the form of an “inner sculpting,” but...giving them external form as spirits as well.

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