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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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Examples for "free thought"
Examples for "free thought"
1
They're meant to be the place where free thought and expression flourishes.
2
There must be free thought, scepticism, diminution in the intensity of herd-instinct.
3
He extended the frontiers of his empire, but ruthlessly suppressed free thought.
4
There is a doctor, but the vicarage suspects him of free thought.
5
Is free speech and free thought under threat at the University of Auckland?
Usage of deism in English
1
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!
6
But pure and simple deism does not answer the purpose of despotic governments.
7
Presbyterianism collapsed into Unitarianism and a general tendency towards deism developed.
8
As a philosopher of religion Hume is the finisher and destroyer of deism.
9
Haeckel has chosen this word Monism, as opposed to theism, deism, materialism, spiritism.
10
There was exactly the same direct spirit in its despotism as in its deism.
11
Already deism had rejected the evidence of a divine revelation.
12
They were the eyes of a man who was in spiritual deism, even agony.
13
This was the approach to divinity known as deism.
14
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.
16
By this "physico-theological" argument he furnishes a welcome support to deism.
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