"nontheistic" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1866 February 15, Peter Bayne, “Critical Notices: The Heavenly Father: Lectures on Modern Atheism”, in The Fortnightly Review, volume 4, number 19, page 119",
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          "ref": "1892, Charles Force Deems, “The Outlook of Theology”, in Christian Thought, volume 9, New York: Wilbur B. Ketcham, page 440",
          "text": "If the universe be regarded as self-existing, then men might hold to evolution, which is distinctly non-theistic, if not atheistic, not requiring a God for the reason that it is founded on the assumption that the possibility and potency and promise of all things reside in matter as matter.",
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          "ref": "1895, Robert Flint, Theism: being the Baird lecture for 1876, 9th edition, William Blackwood and Sons, Lecture II, page 30",
          "text": "But to determine the position and worth of a religion, whether theistic or non-theistic, it is indispensable that we have some notion of what religion is in itself.",
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          "ref": "1960, Hilary Shelton Smith, American Christianity: 1820-1960, →OL",
          "text": "Thus what he called \"natural religion\" must not be confused with modern brands of naturalistic or nontheistic religion.",
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