📚 Theism

Books with theism on their catalogue record, first published between 1763 and 2013, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject theism in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 1,026 works the catalogue holds under that subject. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Essay in Aid of a Grammar of Assent	John Henry Newman	2004	50
	An essay in aid of a grammar of assent	John Henry Newman	1870	45
	Essays (Nature / Theism / Utility of Religion)	John Stuart Mill	1874	34
	The evolution of the idea of God	Grant Allen	1897	27
	Philosophy of theism	Alexander Campbell Fraser	1895	20
	The future of belief	Leslie Dewart	1966	19
	Anti-theistic theories	Robert Flint	1879	17
	Theism	Robert Flint	1877	16
	The will to believe	William James	1897	15
	Phases of faith	Francis William Newman	1850	14
	The idea of God as affected by modern knowledge	John Fiske	1885	12
	A study of religion	James Martineau	1888	12
	Scientific theism	Francis Ellingwood Abbot	1885	9
	Selections from the literature of theism	Alfred Caldecott	1904	9
	He who is	E. L. Mascall	1943	9
	The grounds of theistic and Christian belief	George Park Fisher	1883	8
	Mind and Deity	John Laird	1941	8
	Theism and Cosmology	John Laird	1942	8
	The little book open[.] A prophecy: or, Prophetical dissertation	J. I.	1763	7
	Theism	Tulloch, John	1855	7
	Through nature to God	John Fiske	1899	7
	Mind and deity	Laird, John	1941	7
	Does God exist?	A. E. Taylor	1945	7
	Theism and explanation	Gregory W. Dawes	2009	7
	God	W. Jay Wood	2010	7
	Philosophical Bases of Theism	George Dawes Hicks	2013	7
	Christian theism	Robert Anchor Thompson	1855	6
	The theistic argument as affected by recent theories	J. Lewis Diman	1881	6
	The philosophical basis of theism	Samuel Harris	1883	6
	Man's place in the cosmos	Andrew Seth Pringle-Pattison	1897	6

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 24 Oct 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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