The form of theological rationalism that believes in God on the basis of reason without reference to revelation.
Belief in God without revelation.
1The Biblical idea runs out toward deism in Duns Scotus and Calvin.
2The general principles of deism may be compressed into a few theses.
3Presbyterianism collapsed into unitarianism and there was a general tendency towards deism.
4As we have seen, the earliest current report charged him with deism.
5How different is this from the pure and simple profession of deism!
6But pure and simple deism does not answer the purpose of despotic governments.
7Presbyterianism collapsed into Unitarianism and a general tendency towards deism developed.
8As a philosopher of religion Hume is the finisher and destroyer of deism.
9Haeckel has chosen this word Monism, as opposed to theism, deism, materialism, spiritism.
10There was exactly the same direct spirit in its despotism as in its deism.
11Already deism had rejected the evidence of a divine revelation.
12They were the eyes of a man who was in spiritual deism, even agony.
13This was the approach to divinity known as deism.
14Coming in the last century, amid the crudities of deism, they made a well-defined epoch.
15Robespierre wished to sweep away Christianity as a superstition, but he would stop at deism.
16By this "physico-theological" argument he furnishes a welcome support to deism.