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Earlier definitions of antitheism include that of the French Catholic philosopher Jacques Maritain ( 1953 ), for whom it is " an active struggle against everything that reminds us of God " ( p. 104 ), and that of Robert Flint ( 1877 ), Professor of Divinity at the University of Edinburgh.

Flint's Baird Lecture for 1877 was entitled Anti-Theistic Theories.

He used it as a very general umbrella term for all opposition to his own form of theism, which he defined as the " belief that the heavens and the earth and all that they contain owe their existence and continuance to the wisdom and will of a supreme, self-existent, omnipotent, omniscient, righteous, and benevolent Being, who is distinct from, and independent of, what He has created.

" He wrote: