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Faith espoused in Voltaire's "Treatise on Tolerance"
Answer for the clue "Faith espoused in Voltaire's "Treatise on Tolerance" ", 5 letters:
deism
Alternative clues for the word deism
- Something many Founding Fathers believed in
- Belief of Benjamin Franklin
- Thomas Paine's belief
- Belief in God based on rational evidence
- Rational religion
- Ben Franklin's religious belief
- Ben Franklin's belief
- The form of theological rationalism that believes in God on the basis of reason without reference to revelation
- Religious philosophy based on reason
Word definitions for deism in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Even though he did not actually advocate it, Locke certainly did much to foster such rational deism . ▪ Rationalism of this kind has encouraged the growth of more and more nebulous deism . ▪ Unitarianism is often the stepping-stone ...
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.