Fromtrans- +theistic, coined by philosopherPaul Tillich and IndologistHeinrich Zimmer; see quotations below.
transtheistic (comparativemoretranstheistic,superlativemosttranstheistic)
- (of a belief system)Transcendingtheism.
- 1952,Paul Tillich,The Courage to Be, Yale University Press,
- Stoicism in this sense is a basic religious attitude, whether it appears in theistic, atheistic, or transtheistic forms.
- 1953,Heinrich Robert Zimmer (auth.),Joseph Campbell (ed.),Philosophies of India, page 182,
- […] the Tirthankaras have passed beyond the godly governors of the natural order. Jainism, that is to say, is not atheistic; it istranstheistic.
