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Religion of many of the Founding Fathers
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deism
Alternative clues for the word deism
- Thomas Paine's religious belief
- Rational faith in God
- View espoused in Thomas Paine's "The Age of Reason"
- One form of belief in God
- Something many Founding Fathers believed in
- Faith espoused in Voltaire's "Treatise on Tolerance"
- Voltaire's world-view
- Jefferson's religious belief
- Religious philosophy based on reason
Word definitions for deism in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Deism \De"ism\ (d[=e]"[i^]z'm), n. [L. deus god: cf. F. d['e]isme. 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. Note: Deism is the belief in natural ...
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.