Paine was careful to contrast the tortuous twists of theology with the pure clarity of deism. |
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As a thinker he advanced from theological liberalism to deism, then pantheism and possibly to atheism. |
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I would argue that an interventionist view of God is much closer to deism than my view. |
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As I stated previously, in 18th century deism there were two keys to distinguishing between deism and theism in its various forms. |
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Originating late in 1796, this movement of intellectual, republican deism prospered in towns where dechristianization had been popular. |
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Far from being based in a biblical vision, the case for intelligent design seems to lead at best to a kind of deism. |
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Put into practice, her ceremonial deism will cease to be either ceremonial or deistic. |
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And since he asserts that atheism equals nihilism, and deism equals atheism lite, then I must really be a nihilist. |
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He reacts against the heresy of deism, the belief that God wound up the universe in the beginning but lets it run without intervention. |
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They see economics as a product of Enlightenment rationalism, along with deism, atheism, the chaos of the French Revolution and other un-Christian aspects of the modern age. |
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I've long held a similar belief, namely that modern science would lead to a re-emergence of an old religious idea, a blend of naturalism and deism. |
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How do you bring people to understand another system that isn't based on deism or the idea of a god? |
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In addition, what we now know of quantum mechanics renders deism inadequate theology because the universe doesn't unfold in a rigorously deterministic manner. |
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Indeed, just last week, a cluster of polls showed that deism is on the upswing in America. |
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To suppose this would be a deism much more fundamental and fundamentalist than all the creativist religions that have existed. |
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In terms of religion, Napoleon bordered between deism and atheism. |
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Hobbes's idea of a natural religion can fairly be described as deist, and his blend of deism and civil religion was to prove prophetic of much Enlightenment thinking. |
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The poem Warburton had vindicated a quarter of a century earlier from charges of deism by a Swiss professor had now been travestied along with his own commentary. |
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As a result, no religious acknowledgment could claim to be an instance of ceremonial deism if it explicitly favored one particular religious belief system over another. |
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However, Hardy's religious life seems to have mixed agnosticism, deism, and spiritism. |
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Theism, with its equal stress on divine transcendence of the universe and immanence within it, constitutes a somewhat uneasy conceptual midpoint between deism and pantheism. |
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Rather, they were critics of orthodox belief, wedded rather to skepticism, deism, vitalism, or perhaps pantheism. |
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The dominant intellectual currents of the Enlightenment promoted rationalism, and most Protestant leaders preached a sort of deism. |
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The goal was to avoid skepticism, deism and theological disputes that might impinge on domestic tranquility. |
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The extreme rationalism and skepticism of the age led naturally to deism and also played a part in bringing the later reaction of romanticism. |
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As one of many ethnic groups in Canada, the Scots have managed to retain their separate identity, as well as adopting other religious practices such as deism. |
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Deism reflected the scientific paradigm of the times in which the world inexorably and thoroughly followed strict mathematical laws of nature. |
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Deism is the belief in a Supreme Being who is a creator who does not intervene in the universe. |
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A number of novel ideas about religion developed with the Enlightenment, including Deism and talk of atheism. |
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As with Deism and Materialism, the German Rationalism invaded the department of Biblical exegesis. |
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As a devout Anglican and believer in scriptural authority, Jennens intended to challenge advocates of Deism, who rejected the doctrine of divine intervention in human affairs. |
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