Definition of "particularistic" [particularistic]

• Of or pertaining to particularism. (adjective)

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• "If, for the sake of argument, we were to adopt this diluted interpretation of the verb "foreknow" in Rom. 8: 29, we are not to readily conclude that what we call the particularistic exegesis would have to be abandoned and the absolute sovereignty of God in the matter of election to life be eliminated."
• "[Many leftist critics of Israel] think the Jews have stubbornly chosen to maintain a particularistic, Judeo-centric ideology – in this case Zionism – despite being offered a more rational, enlightened, universalistic, and pacifistic ideology by more enlightened folk."
• "What the left wants is the particularistic nation-state to be superseded by – and was the necessary historical condition to – the universal and homogeneous state (which, of course, would lead to the repulsive last man) much like the polytheistic pagan and particularistic Jewish religions were largely superseded by the universal Christian God in the West."