He describes himself as an atheist and considers theist religion to be indefensible. He was a Christian theist and proponent of theistic evolution. His parable is of two travellers, a theist and an atheist, together on a road. He considered himself a philosophical theist and a fideist. Leibniz was claimed as a philosophical theist. Prescriptivism can fit the theist idea of morality as obedience towards god. Unlike Rand, Geller is a theist who defends the Judeo-Christian ethical tradition. An open theist might respond that all such criticisms are misplaced. He also restated that he was not a Christian theist. To theist schools of Hinduism, the "Isa" is God. "Most Moved Mover" was his most thorough explanation of his open theist perspective. For a theist there is no such thing as "spiritual death". I am in fact not even a theist. As Browning got older he was considered a Theist.