1) Advocacy of natural religion 2) Basic religious belief 3) Belief in a God 4) Belief in a laissez-faire God 5) Belief in a personal God 6) Belief in a watchmaker God 7) Belief in an indifferent God 8) Belief in god 9) Belief in god through reason 10) Belief in natural religion 11) Belief of Benjamin Franklin
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Belief in God that is derived solely by reason. It admits of a Supreme Being that posited order in a pre-existing chaos, but denies that He concerns Himself providentially in man’s affairs. As a clock is made and set to operate by the craftsman, so did God, in this view, fashion the universe to run mechanically and, relative to His presence, at a...
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Deism (əm or əm) is the belief that reason and observation of the natural world are sufficient to determine the existence of a Creator, accompanied with the rejection of authority as a source of religious knowledge. Deism gained prominence in the 17th and 18th centuries during the Age of Enlightenment—especially in Britain, France, Germany, an...
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belief in God but rejection of religion
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the philosophical stance claiming that God exists, but not as a living being who intervenes in the natural or moral worlds we inhabit (as in theism). Many deists believe there are proofs for the existence of God that succeed in making God's existence knowable.
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• (n.) The doctrine or creed of a deist; the belief or system of those who acknowledge the existence of one God, but deny revelation.
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an unorthodox religious attitude that found expression among a group of English writers beginning with Edward Herbert (later 1st Baron Herbert of ... [20 related articles]
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A theological movement, which gathered momentum in the 18th century, which rejects continuing divine involvement in the details of the world. For the deist, God`s action consists of setting the universe in operation at the beginning of time.
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Rather a lot of people are deists without even knowing the word exists. Deists believe in an omnipotent god who created the universe, set up the natural laws that it operates by, and then left the universe to operate under those laws, without miraculous intervention. Deism provides a cosmological explanation for the existence of the universe rather...
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Belief in a supreme being. The term usually refers to a movement in the 17th and 18th centuries characterized by the belief in a rational `religion...
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(From Latin Deus, 'God') An intellectual religious movement en vogue through the late seventeenth ce
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De'ism (dē'ĭz'm)
noun [ Latin
deus god: confer French
déisme . See
Deity .] The doctrine or creed of a deist; the belief or system of those who acknowledge the existence of one God, but deny revelation. »
Deism is the belief in natural religion only, or ...
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the belief that there is a God whose existence can be apprehended without revelation. Cf. agnosticism, atheism, and theism.
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Deism is a philosophical system which, as opposed to Atheism, recognizes a great First Cause; as opposed to Pantheism, a Supreme Being distinct from nature or the universe; while, as opposed to Theism, it looks upon God as wholly apart from the concerns of this world. It thus implies a disbelief in revelation, scepticism as regards the value of mir...
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A rationalistic religion based on religion and nature instead of revelation. Deists believe in one God and in an afterlife of rewards and punishments, but they reject both miracles and prayers. This position spread under the Enlightenment period and influenced the founding fathers of the United States (Prothero 2008
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a form of monotheism in which it is believed that one god exists. However, a deist rejects the idea that this god intervenes in the world. Hence any notion of special revelation is impossible, and the nature of god can only be known through reason and observation from nature. A deist thus rejects the miraculous, and the claim to knowledge made for ...
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n] - the form of theological rationalism that believes in God on the basis of reason without reference to revelation
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deism, deistic, deistical A belief in God based on reason rather than revelation, and involving the view that God has set the universe in motion but does not interfere with how it runs. Deism was especially influential in the 17th and 18th centuries.
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free thought noun the form of theological rationalism that believes in God on the basis of reason without reference to revelation
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(Lat. deus, god) Two uses of the term (a) By many writers the term covers the view that God has no immediate relation with the world, God indeed is responsible for the world but for reasons unknown or conjectured God has no commerce with it; accordingly, the supplications and hopes of men are illusory and fruitless. This doctrine is sometimes refe....
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Belief in a supreme being. The term usually refers to a movement in the 17th and 18th centuries characterized by the belief in a rational `religion of nature` as opposed to the orthodox beliefs of Christianity. Deists believed that God is the source of natural law but does not intervene directly in the affairs of the world, and that the o...
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belief in the existence of a God on the evidence of reason and nature only, with rejection of supernatural revelation (distinguished from theism). · belief in a God who created the world but has since remained indifferent to it.
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