abnormalist
Etymology
From abnormal + -ist.
abnormalist means one who believes that the cosmos is in an abnormal state that can only be set right by divine influence. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 94 out of 100.
Why this word is great
ABNORMALIST — [Noun] One who holds the cosmological conviction that the universe exists in a fundamentally flawed or deviant state, a condition requiring direct divine intervention to set right. From English abnormal ("deviating from the norm") + -ist ("one who practices or believes"). Unlike a "normalist," who trusts in an innate, discoverable order and the sufficiency of human reason, or a "deist," who posits a watchmaker god who then absents Himself, the abnormalist perceives a creation that has gone subtly, profoundly awry. It is the gaze that sees a stained glass window with every pane askew, the ear that hears a symphony playing perpetually sharp of the celestial, the quiet certainty that the warmth of a candle in a vast darkness is a proof of the surrounding chill. This is the melancholy hope of one who finds the universe too wrong to be normal, and too beautiful to be finally abandoned.
noun
- One who believes that the cosmos is in an abnormal state that can only be set right by divine influence.“On the other hand, there is the worldview represented by the abnormalists, who insist that the cosmos is in an aberrant state because a fundamental disturbance has taken place in the past which can only be remedied by a regenerating power that can restore it to its original goals (theism).”