Search for crossword answers and clues
Belief in a God
Answer for the clue "Belief in a God ", 5 letters:
deism
Alternative clues for the word deism
- 17th-century theology
- Rational belief in God
- Doctrine referenced in the Declaration
- Belief in God through reason
- Belief in a hands-off god
- Belief in crusade is misplaced
- Faith espoused in Voltaire's "Treatise on Tolerance"
- The form of theological rationalism that believes in God on the basis of reason without reference to revelation
- Certain religious philosophy
- Religious doctrine
Usage examples of deism.
There is probably no argument by which the case for theism, or for deism, or for pantheism in either its pancosmic or acosmic form, can be convincingly proved.
Europe and America, however, deism eventually foundered and it did so because it fell between two stools.
One adhered to the cold Supernaturalism of the eighteenth century, the other to a system of philosophical Deism.
Now, shall we return to deism, or would you rather proceed to the mythopoesis attitude?
I should proceed to a view of the life, character, & doctrines of Jesus, who sensible of incorrectness of their ideas of the Deity, and of morality, endeavored to bring them to the principles of a pure deism, and juster notions of the attributes of God, to reform their moral doctrines to the standard of reason, justice & philanthropy, and to inculcate the belief of a future state.