The Theophilanthropists (`Friends of God and Man`) were a deistic sect, formed in France during the later part of the French Revolution. ==Origins== Thomas Paine, together with other disciples of Rousseau and Robespierre, set up a new religion, in which Rousseau`s deism and Robespierre`s civic virtue (rè de la vertu) would be combined. Jean-B...
• (n.) Theophilanthropism.
The`o·phi·lan'thro·py noun [ Greek ... God + English philanthropy .] Theophilanthropism. Macaulay. 
theophilanthropy, theophilanthropic A belief that expresses a love for God and mankind.