inclusivistn.adj.
/ɪnˈkluːsɪvɪst/, /ɪŋˈkluːsɪvɪst/, U.S. /ᵻnˈklusəvəst/, /ɪŋˈklusəvəst/ A. n.
1. A person who advocates a policy or practice of inclusion, esp. one of not excluding anyone on the grounds of race, gender, religion, age, disability, etc.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > kind or sort > generality > condition or state of being inclusive > [noun] > principle or practice of > one who
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1925 Daily Telegram (Adrian, Michigan) 14 Jan. 5/5 The inclusivists maintain that the church should appeal to all classes.
1964 Social Probl. 12 36/2 The social inclusivist favoring contact between groups which transcends whatever barriers there may be.
1996 E. D. Hirsch Schools we Need vi. 210 Inclusivists..hold that such a policy..discourages slower and less advantaged students.
2. Theology. A person who believes in or advocates the doctrine of inclusivism (inclusivism n. 2).
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1983 Relig. Stud. 19 75 The non-judgmental inclusivist holds..that what appear to be cognitive truth-claims within any given religious world-view..are in fact nothing of the kind.
1993 Jrnl. Relig. 73 63 Inclusivists..and pluralists..invite us to look beneath religious differences to a universalizable core.
2007 M. G. Minix in T. W. Tilley et al. Relig. Diversity & Amer. Experience (2008) v. 81 All inclusivists find that it is possible for people who are not explicitly Christian to be saved.
B. adj.
1. Characterized by inclusiveness; esp. that does not exclude any person on the grounds of race, gender, religion, age, disability, etc.
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the world > relative properties > kind or sort > generality > condition or state of being inclusive > [adjective] > characterized by inclusivism
inclusivist1950
inclusionary1970
1950 Altoona (Pa.) Mirror 28 Apr. 33/1 The inclusivist church and the socialist kingdom of God.
1980 Design Q. 113 72/1 His inclusivist approach to design makes references to historical architecture in a skillful manipulation of space.
1989 Sunday Tel. 15 Jan. 3/3 The trend towards ‘inclusivist language’.
2008 Irish Times (Nexis) 27 Sept. 5 Cameron has forced the Conservatives on to the tolerant, inclusivist centre-ground of British politics.
2. Theology. Of or relating to inclusivism (inclusivism n. 2).
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1976 J. Yerkes Christol. of Hegel (Ph.D. diss., Univ. of Chicago) 354 Hegel's christology is strongly ‘inclusivist’ rather than ‘exclusivist’ in the way it understands the revelatory significance of the Christ event.
1983 Relig. Stud. 19 487 There are, I think, three main possibilities, which can be aptly labelled the exclusivist, the inclusivist, and the pluralist understandings of the religious situation.
1989 L. Newbigin Gospel in Pluralist Soc. xiv. 182 The position which I have outlined..is inclusivist in the sense that it refuses to limit the saving grace of God to the members of the Christian Church.
2007 C. McMahon Jesus our Salvation 213 The inclusivist model posits the universal salvific significance of Christ.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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