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