agnosticism
- n a religious orientation of doubt; a denial of ultimate knowledge of the existence of God
agnosticism holds that you can neither prove nor disprove God's existence - n the disbelief in any claims of ultimate knowledge
- When Kerry got home from the war, he went through what he calls a "period of a little bit of anger and agnosticism, but subsequently, I did a lot of reading and a lot of thinking .
- The novel experiment in Protestant monasticism was begun by Roger Schutz, 45, the ninth child of a Swiss Calvinist pastor and a French mother, who turned from agnosticism to study .
- But the suave sophisticates, the dreamy litterateurs who read the Nation and Athenaeum (London weekly) leaned toward atheism, agnosticism.