Sentence:  This was the earnest attempt of a Christian to explain in some detail how God might act using natural law, although his critics noted that such a Creator had more in common with a gnostic <WSD>demiurge</WSD> than the transcendent God of the Judeo-Christian tradition. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  A (usually jealous or outright malevolent) being who is inferior to the supreme being, and sometimes seen as the creator of evil.