英语词汇“deism”造句的方法、技巧、例句及翻译-英语例句辞典

Werline: I don’t think the Founding Fathers had a form of Christianity that we would immediately recognize today because of the presence of deism. Faith in ignorance: Politicians who quote the Bible often don’t know anything about the Bible 2016-10-08T04:00:00Z

He read Mary Wollstonecraft and boasted of knowing Tom Paine, though he must have disagreed with them too, on account of Wollstonecraft's rationalism and Paine's deism. William Blake's picture of God 2010-08-17T13:00:00Z

Franklin subscribed to deism, an Enlightenment-era belief in a God who created, but has no continuing involvement in, the world and the events within it. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z

The courts have generally allowed for a certain tolerance of what is described as ceremonial deism, an acknowledgement of God or a creator that generally lacks any substantive religious content. American Government 2021-07-28T00:00:00Z

Even some ministers approached deism, particularly in the more prestigious and well-established churches, and tried to explain Christianity by rational proof instead of spiritual conviction or biblical authority. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z

Why not deism instead of theism, or pantheism instead of either? Opinion | A Guide to Finding Faith 2021-08-14T04:00:00Z

“I started feeling this longing for the culture of deism of my childhood … the warm, holy feeling” of a higher power. Melissa Broder isn't trying to be provocative. It's just who she is 2021-01-28T05:00:00Z

Leaders such as Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson thought that traditional religion would eventually vanish into Unitarianism and deism. Opinion | Gillibrand’s vilification of pro-life people proves how hopeless she is 2019-06-13T04:00:00Z

The phrase “ceremonial deism” was coined by a Yale Law School dean in 1962, and in the decades since it has been used by court after court to explain exceptions to the First Amendment. Why Are Americans Still Uncomfortable with Atheism? 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z

While the “better sort” flirted with deism, rekindled faith warmed more ordinary Americans. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z

At roughly the same time, I was in the midst of a pilgrimage of faith that started as vague deism but eventually led me to evangelicalism. Opinion | Why I Can No Longer Call Myself an Evangelical Republican 2017-12-09T05:00:00Z

A recent academic study concluded that, despite the fact that liberals increasingly view themselves as irreligious, liberals’ views are just as much based on some sense of deism as are conservatives’ – just different. American Politics Is Split On Morals, Not Religion 2014-07-19T04:00:00Z

This is a dispute between conservative Christians, not an outbreak of soggy, believe-what-you-like European deism. Lexington: All about Adam 2013-11-21T16:03:54Z

There is, of course, no such thing as the perfect church, but in Orthodoxy, which radically resists the moralistic therapeutic deism that characterizes so much American Christianity, I found a soul-healing balance. I’m Still Not Going Back to the Catholic Church 2013-09-29T09:45:27Z

Despite the influence of deism, eighteenth-century Americans had clearly not abandoned religion. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z

Averroes opposed the pure deism of Islam to mythological pantheism and Christian anthromorphism, and his 'Commentaries of Aristotle,' although vividly coloured with Mussulman tints, impassioned all independent minds in medieval Europe. The Life of Mohammad The Prophet of Allah 2012-04-25T02:01:04.030Z

Nevertheless, though the alternative in the last analysis of speculation be Catholicism or deism, the practical alternative may be Catholicism and fragmentary Christianity. The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine 2012-04-05T02:00:40.207Z

If you ask, what system these men adopt, I answer, Some build on deism a morality founded on self-preservation, self-interest, and self-honour; others laugh at all morality, except that which being neglected violently disturbs society. Fletcher of Madeley 2012-02-23T03:00:39.877Z

French deism, the direct progeny of the English movement, was equally short-lived. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 10 "David, St" to "Demidov" 2012-02-17T03:00:33.923Z

Inspired by the Enlightenment’s cult of reason and deism, they also attacked the Catholic Church for defending the old order with what they called “superstitions.” Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z

In the struggle against deism that marked the first quarter of the eighteenth century, the widespread influence of such books told against infidelity. The Anglo-French Entente in the Seventeenth Century 2011-11-04T02:00:24.773Z

Catholicism, or deism, is indeed the only ultimately logical and consistent alternative, though, happily, few men in rejecting Catholicism are logically consistent enough to reject Christianity. The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine 2012-04-05T02:00:40.207Z

Materialism is not rare; deism and Socinianism are very common; and a set of freethinkers, great admirers of Voltaire and Rousseau, Bayle and Mirabeau, seem bent upon destroying Christianity and government. Fletcher of Madeley 2012-02-23T03:00:39.877Z

Outside France, Germany and England, there were no great schools of thought distinctively deistic, though in most countries there is to be found a rationalistic anti-clerical movement which partakes of the character of deism. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 10 "David, St" to "Demidov" 2012-02-17T03:00:33.923Z

Leaders like Thomas Jefferson embraced Enlightenment deism, and the revolutionary writer Thomas Paine turned from political tracts to mockery of Christian revelation. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z

English deism was not a religion, but at first a philosophy, and afterwards a scientific generalization. The Life Of Thomas Paine, Vol. II. (of II) With A History of His Literary, Political and Religious Career in America France, and England 2011-10-12T02:00:47.957Z

Paine's "deism" differed from Franklin's only in being more fervently religious. The Life Of Thomas Paine, Vol. I. (of II) With A History of His Literary, Political and Religious Career in America France, and England; to which is added a Sketch of Paine by William Cobbett 2011-10-12T02:00:38.787Z

A loose, easy-going, yet confident deism seemed almost to have superseded Christianity. Fletcher of Madeley 2012-02-23T03:00:39.877Z

But the intenser religious life before which deism fell was also a revolt against the abstract and argumentative orthodoxy of the time. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 10 "David, St" to "Demidov" 2012-02-17T03:00:33.923Z

This movement was essentially different from English deism. Church History, Vol. 3 of 3 2011-09-14T02:00:43.813Z

The utilitarian English race, always the stronghold of science, had established the freedom of the new deism, which thus became the mould into which all unorthodoxies ran. The Life Of Thomas Paine, Vol. II. (of II) With A History of His Literary, Political and Religious Career in America France, and England 2011-10-12T02:00:47.957Z

He also gave much time to the reading of Schiller, in whose works he found an assault on the frigid deism then predominant in Germany. The Irish Ecclesiastical Record, Volume 1, June 1865 2011-08-13T02:00:20.940Z

We now descend gradually and almost insensibly in the scale of deism, until little by little we reach a condition of gross idolatry, not far removed from that still practised by many African tribes. The Mythologies of Ancient Mexico and Peru 2011-06-13T02:00:26.863Z

Even now many undoubtedly cling to a theology nearly allied to deism. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 10 "David, St" to "Demidov" 2012-02-17T03:00:33.923Z

In England during the first half of the century deism had still several active propagandists, and throughout the whole century efforts, not altogether unsuccessful, were made to spread Unitarian views. Church History, Vol. 3 of 3 2011-09-14T02:00:43.813Z

It was thus the Christian prelate who had abandoned the primitive faith in the divine humanity for a natural deism, while the man he calls a "child of the devil" was defending the divine humanity. The Life Of Thomas Paine, Vol. II. (of II) With A History of His Literary, Political and Religious Career in America France, and England 2011-10-12T02:00:47.957Z

These philosophers appear to have advanced far into 612 their inquiries, for they were branded by atheism or deism. Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z

It was English deism “mixed with cunning sparks of”—French wit. French Classics 2011-05-22T02:00:12.620Z

Probably Chubb’s position on this head is most fairly characteristic of deism. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 10 "David, St" to "Demidov" 2012-02-17T03:00:33.923Z

Arminian pelagianism, recommended by brilliant scholarship, English deism, spread by translations and refutations, and French naturalism, introduced by a great and much honoured king, were the outward factors in securing this result. Church History, Vol. 3 of 3 2011-09-14T02:00:43.813Z

The cant of the time was that "deism might do to live by but not to die by." The Life Of Thomas Paine, Vol. II. (of II) With A History of His Literary, Political and Religious Career in America France, and England 2011-10-12T02:00:47.957Z

Rational deism and clerical religion were to him two equally abhorrent incarnations of the same evil spirit, appearing now as negation and now as restriction. William Blake A Critical Essay 2011-05-04T02:00:18.110Z

The general position of English deism was the acceptance of the belief in the existence of God, and the profession of natural religion along with opposition to the mysteries and special claims of Christianity. The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 3: Estremoz to Felspar 2011-04-14T02:00:59.373Z

The controversies they had provoked collapsed, and deism became a by-word even amongst those who were in no degree anxious to appear as champions of orthodoxy. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 10 "David, St" to "Demidov" 2012-02-17T03:00:33.923Z

Locke accomplished the descent from Bacon to deism and materialism, so Wolff effected the transition from Leibnitz to the popular philosophy. Church History, Vol. 3 of 3 2011-09-14T02:00:43.813Z

He made loud professions of deism, and of devotion to Paine. The Life Of Thomas Paine, Vol. II. (of II) With A History of His Literary, Political and Religious Career in America France, and England 2011-10-12T02:00:47.957Z

That he did not allow Newtonianism to draw him to deism may be seen in Stiles's gratification that Winthrop "was a Firm friend to Revelation in opposition to Deism." Benjamin Franklin Representative selections, with introduction, bibliograpy, and notes 2011-03-08T03:00:46.777Z

Defenders of Christianity and of deism alike Moral and religious atmosphere. appealed to the reason alone. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 5 English History 2011-02-12T03:00:32.473Z

Externally Chubb is interesting as representing the deism of the people contrasted with that of Tindal the theologian. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 10 "David, St" to "Demidov" 2012-02-17T03:00:33.923Z

The simple religious system of deism embraced God, providence, freedom of the will, virtue, and the immortality of the soul. Church History, Vol. 3 of 3 2011-09-14T02:00:43.813Z

An occasional presidential speech in the diction of “ceremonial deism,” briefly raising our eyes from our everyday chores to things of the spirit, is certainly appropriate. 2010-02-10T22:07:00Z

Here were variations from Calvinism's common path which, when augmented by English and French liberalism, by the influence of Quakerism and the frontier, were to give rise to democracy, rationalism, and scientific deism. Benjamin Franklin Representative selections, with introduction, bibliograpy, and notes 2011-03-08T03:00:46.777Z

In spite of his deism and his jokes about sacred things, he enjoyed most friendly and even influential relations with religious people, who might have been supposed to have a horror of him. The True Benjamin Franklin

Yet English deism was in many ways characteristically English. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 10 "David, St" to "Demidov" 2012-02-17T03:00:33.923Z

Among the numerous opponents of deism these are chief: Samuel Clarke, died a.d. Church History, Vol. 3 of 3 2011-09-14T02:00:43.813Z

The term has been often loosely used as equivalent with infidelity generally, with deism, with pantheism, and with the denial of immortality. The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 2 Amiel to Atrauli

That Newtonianism and even deism made progress at Yale is the tenor of Johnson's backward glance. Benjamin Franklin Representative selections, with introduction, bibliograpy, and notes 2011-03-08T03:00:46.777Z

From boyish deism he had passed to youthful negation, and from negation returned to deism again. The True Benjamin Franklin

Diderot was for a time heartily in sympathy with deistic thought; and the Encyclop�die was in its earlier portion an organ of deism. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 10 "David, St" to "Demidov" 2012-02-17T03:00:33.923Z

As an opponent of deism in sermons and treatises he had gained a high reputation as a theologian, when his work, “The Scripture Doctrine of the Trinity,” in a.d. Church History, Vol. 3 of 3 2011-09-14T02:00:43.813Z

In such an atmosphere, deism readily uttered its protest against mysterious revelation. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 3 "Apollodorus" to "Aral"

That there was no dearth of advanced natural science and philosophy, even suggestive of deism, is fairly evident. Benjamin Franklin Representative selections, with introduction, bibliograpy, and notes 2011-03-08T03:00:46.777Z

So Franklin’s belief at the close of his life was deism, which was the same faith that he had professed when a boy. The True Benjamin Franklin

For men like Hume and Gibbon the standpoint of deism was long left behind; yet Gibbon’s famous two chapters might well have been written by a deist. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 10 "David, St" to "Demidov" 2012-02-17T03:00:33.923Z

Whilst English deism with its air of thoroughness made way among the learned, the poison of frivolous French naturalism committed its ravages among the higher circles. Church History, Vol. 3 of 3 2011-09-14T02:00:43.813Z

Carri�re identified himself with the school of the younger Fichte as one who held the theistic view of the world which aimed at reconciling the contradictions between deism and pantheism. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 4 "Carnegie Andrew" to "Casus Belli"

Chester E. Jorgenson is preparing an analysis and interpretation of Franklin's brand of scientific deism, its sources and relation to his economic, political, and literary theories and practice. Benjamin Franklin Representative selections, with introduction, bibliograpy, and notes 2011-03-08T03:00:46.777Z

It was written to combat superstition, fanaticism, and atheism on the one hand, and to defend religion, morality, and deism on the other. Junius Unmasked or, Thomas Paine the author of the Letters of Junius and the Declaration of Independence

But deism is not a compact system nor is it the outcome of any one line of philosophical thought. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 10 "David, St" to "Demidov" 2012-02-17T03:00:33.923Z

It opposes the view of deism that God withdrew from His creation, indifferent to the destiny of His creatures. Jewish Theology

Formerly this kind of declaration was called "deism" and Herr Duehring says that we had not much regard for it, but it now appears that the world has gone backwards in this respect also. Landmarks of Scientific Socialism "Anti-Duehring"

One can only conjecture the extent to which this library would perplex, astonish, and finally convert men to rationalism and scientific deism, and release them from bondage to throne and altar. Benjamin Franklin Representative selections, with introduction, bibliograpy, and notes 2011-03-08T03:00:46.777Z

In ours he is viewed as a teacher of deism. History of Free Thought in Reference to The Christian Religion

Yet deism deserves to be remembered as a strenuous protest against bibliolatry in every degree and against all traditionalism in theology. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 10 "David, St" to "Demidov" 2012-02-17T03:00:33.923Z

It is improbable that, in his heart, he felt that the preaching of pure deism could ever secure such results. Benjamin Franklin A Picture of the Struggles of Our Infant Nation One Hundred Years Ago American Pioneers and Patriots Series

In religious ontology we find it in deism. Monophysitism Past and Present A Study in Christology

Since his philosophic rationale preceded his activities in science, it will not do to suggest that his interest in science was responsible for his scientific deism. Benjamin Franklin Representative selections, with introduction, bibliograpy, and notes 2011-03-08T03:00:46.777Z

It was merely deism, built on a sounder basis, and spiritualized by contact with a truer philosophy. History of Free Thought in Reference to The Christian Religion

The impulses that promoted a vein of thought cognate to deism were active both before and after the time of its greatest notoriety. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 10 "David, St" to "Demidov" 2012-02-17T03:00:33.923Z

Indeed this borders upon deism; for the deists argue, “Do you think that praying will make God change his mind?” A Solemn Caution Against the Ten Horns of Calvinism

The Christological counterpart of dualism and of deism is Nestorianism. Monophysitism Past and Present A Study in Christology

Commonly this creed has been described as illustrating the deism of Lord Herbert of Cherbury. Benjamin Franklin Representative selections, with introduction, bibliograpy, and notes 2011-03-08T03:00:46.777Z

Leehler's work on English deism, for example,28 is a singular example of truthful narrative; and Leland's,29 though controversial, is worthy of nearly the same praise. History of Free Thought in Reference to The Christian Religion

But is it not a great leading feature of deism itself, that it exalts the power of God at the expense of his infinite moral perfections? A Theodicy, or, Vindication of the Divine Glory

Abstract philosophy might lead to deism or infidelity. The English Utilitarians, Volume I.

Upon him were heaped every possible and most contradictory accusation—of skepticism and pantheism, of deism and atheism, of superstition and enthusiasm, of irony and passion, of sensuality and ideality, of generosity and avarice. My Recollections of Lord Byron

Likewise, his views on education were conditioned by his faith in intellectual progress, in the might of Reason, which in turn was in part the result of his scientific deism. Benjamin Franklin Representative selections, with introduction, bibliograpy, and notes 2011-03-08T03:00:46.777Z

He has not indeed expressed it definitely in his writings; and an ethical system which formed the basis of Butler's sermons,407 cannot necessarily be charged with deism. History of Free Thought in Reference to The Christian Religion

That book, he thought, as others have thought, was conclusive against the optimistic deism which it assails; but he thought also that the argument really destroyed Butler's own standing-ground. The English Utilitarians, Volume II (of 3) James Mill

Shakspere, then, could find in Montaigne the traditional deism of the pagan and Christian world, without any colour of specifically Christian faith, and with a direct lead to unbelief in a future state. Montaigne and Shakspere

Another group of ideas belonging to philosophical theology consists of three generalizations respecting God's relation to the world, known as theism, pantheism, and deism. The Approach to Philosophy

The effort of deism to simplify religion was historically shared by Quakerism. Benjamin Franklin Representative selections, with introduction, bibliograpy, and notes 2011-03-08T03:00:46.777Z

These two names mark the period which we called the decline of deism. History of Free Thought in Reference to The Christian Religion

He restored the sentiment of religion in an age of abstract deism or turbid materialism. A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II.

This religion is considered by some a pure deism, by others a belief with political aims, the followers of which worship the departed heroes of the country. The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II

He was one of the group that introduced the modern continental notation of the calculus into England, replacing the cumbersome notation of Newton, passing from "the dotage of fluxions to the deism of the calculus." A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I

Yet perhaps the modus operandi of this myriad-minded colonial, this provincial Leonardo, is best explained in reference to the thought pattern of scientific deism. Benjamin Franklin Representative selections, with introduction, bibliograpy, and notes 2011-03-08T03:00:46.777Z

Two writers of opposite schools are usually regarded as marking the rise of deism, both of whom belonged to this phase of it, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, and Hobbes. History of Free Thought in Reference to The Christian Religion

The philosophy of D’Alembert’s Dream is definite enough, and far enough removed alike from deism and scepticism. Diderot and the Encyclopædists Volume II.

Neither should we have to fear that from such a theory cold deism would be substituted for our theism, full of life. The Theories of Darwin and Their Relation to Philosophy, Religion, and Morality

The Biblical idea runs out toward deism in Duns Scotus and Calvin. Christianity and Progress

Franklin's natural religion—like deism in general—failed, as scriptural religion does not, to establish a union between theology, the religious life, and ethical behavior. Benjamin Franklin Representative selections, with introduction, bibliograpy, and notes 2011-03-08T03:00:46.777Z

The amount of thought contributed by him to deism was small; for his influence on his successors was unimportant. History of Free Thought in Reference to The Christian Religion

On the third side, my uncle, as a Mahometan, wants to convert him to deism; you may judge from this how much harmony there is between us; you might take us for an Academy! French and Oriental Love in a Harem

But there is nothing in his poems or in his letters which goes beyond sincere deism—nothing which is in any way distinctively Christian. Robert Burns

In the eighteenth century an extreme form of deism held the field and God, as personal will, was conceived as the Creator, who in a dim and distant past had made all things. Christianity and Progress

Before he became an economist, a statesman, a man of letters, a scientist, he had embraced scientific deism, primarily impelled by Newtonianism. Benjamin Franklin Representative selections, with introduction, bibliograpy, and notes 2011-03-08T03:00:46.777Z

In the period which we are now examining, deism was almost entirely confined to the upper classes. History of Free Thought in Reference to The Christian Religion

It suggests the cynicism of the heartless fine gentleman who sneers at Wesley and Bunyan, and covers his want of feeling by a stilted deism. English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century

Nearly at the same time an important change passed over her religious views, and the vague deism of her youth deepened into a positive, definite, and earnest Christianity, but without mysticism and without intolerance. Historical and Political Essays

In the not far distant past deism and pantheism served as a polite subterfuge for atheism. The Necessity of Atheism

In general, emotional Methodism was not responsive to science as a basis for rationalistic deism, although to a considerable extent Methodism and deism synchronized in their endeavor to relieve social suffering. Benjamin Franklin Representative selections, with introduction, bibliograpy, and notes 2011-03-08T03:00:46.777Z

The monotheism constitutes also a line of demarcation between deism and more modern forms of unbelief. History of Free Thought in Reference to The Christian Religion

But the deism of the 17th century is a phase of thought that has no living reality now, and the whole aspect of the religious problem has been completely changed. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"

Haeckel has chosen this word Monism, as opposed to theism, deism, materialism, spiritism. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 12 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Scientists

Campanus and Adam Pastor and Servetus and the Sozinis had no aversion to the supernatural and made no claim to reduce Christianity to a humanitarian deism, as some modern Unitarians would do. The Age of the Reformation

Scholars have yet to work out the extent to which Freemasonry, yokefellow of deism, reinforced free thought and was one of the subversive forces breaking down colonial orthodoxy. Benjamin Franklin Representative selections, with introduction, bibliograpy, and notes 2011-03-08T03:00:46.777Z

He was at first a unitarian minister; but, changing from unitarianism into deism, he left that body, and became a preacher in Boston, until he was compelled to visit Europe on account of enfeebled health. History of Free Thought in Reference to The Christian Religion

Thereby they fall either into atheism, or into deism, two things which the Christian religion abhors almost equally. Pascal's Pensées

If you think the most important of the discussions of our day to be that between natural and revealed religion, between deism and the Gospel, you have not well discerned the signs of the times. The Heavenly Father Lectures on Modern Atheism

Moreover, the critique of the new atheism was more searching than had been that of the old deism. The Age of the Reformation

Among those relevant for our study are: the ubiquitous frontier, and the rise of Quakerism, deism, Methodism, and science. Benjamin Franklin Representative selections, with introduction, bibliograpy, and notes 2011-03-08T03:00:46.777Z

The second forms a transition to the two latter, being philosophy applied to criticism, and is the form which deism now took. History of Free Thought in Reference to The Christian Religion

The God which serves as a foundation to natural religion, to theism or to deism, is Himself the greatest mystery to a mind wishing to dwell upon Him. Superstition In All Ages (1732) Common Sense

The idea of a general government of God which does not descend to details—such is the essence of deism. The Heavenly Father Lectures on Modern Atheism

The same treatment of Mohammedanism, as that accorded by Harnack to Christianity would, as Loisy remarks, deduce from it the same humanitarian deism as that now fashionable at Berlin. The Age of the Reformation

The Church of England through the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries had "pursued a liberal latitudinarian policy which, as a mode of thought, tended to promote deism by emphasizing rational religion and minimizing revelation." Benjamin Franklin Representative selections, with introduction, bibliograpy, and notes 2011-03-08T03:00:46.777Z

In the later steps the influence of the French school of speculation is already observable, mingling itself with English deism. History of Free Thought in Reference to The Christian Religion

But the most prevailing opinion, if you search into the secret of the effendis, is, plain deism. Letters of the Right Honourable Lady M—y W—y M—e Written during Her Travels in Europe, Asia and Africa to Persons of Distinction, Men of Letters, &c. in Different Parts of Europe

This coarse avowal of adherence to the elder, and, after all, more intelligible deism, brought down upon him at once two of the company. The Eclipse of Faith Or, A Visit To A Religious Sceptic

Compared with the emotional deism of Caitanya this faith seems somewhat philosophic and reticent. Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 2

The movement of English thought known as deism was a distinct forerunner of the rationalist movement, within the particular area of the discussion of religion. An Outline of the History of Christian Thought Since Kant

This creed is deism, and bears a very striking resemblance to that taught by the English deists. History of Free Thought in Reference to The Christian Religion

In his "Essay on Man," Pope versified, without well understanding, the optimistic deism of Leibnitz, as expounded by Shaftesbury and Bolingbroke. A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century

It was pronounced pernicious, dangerous, and tending to deism, chiefly on account of some too suggestive comparisons between the miraculous healings in the New Testament, and those ascribed in the more ancient legend to Æsculapius. Diderot and the Encyclopædists (Vol 1 of 2)

An Otaheitean or an Esquimaux knows nothing of Christianity; does he know more of the principles of deism or morality? which, notwithstanding his ignorance, are neither untrue, nor unimportant, nor uncertain. Evidence of Christianity

It was not a dilettante and aristocratic movement as deism had been in England. An Outline of the History of Christian Thought Since Kant

We paused there, because deism then ends as a literary movement. History of Free Thought in Reference to The Christian Religion

Not only is it, for him, an encroachment upon the rights of Christ, but it leads to deism in the gentry and to dissent among the common people. Political Thought in England from Locke to Bentham

And the tendencies of deism in France grew more violently destructive, not only because religious superstition was grosser, but because that superstition was incorporated in a strong and inexpansible social structure. Diderot and the Encyclopædists (Vol 1 of 2)

The anthropomorphic God, the God who is felt, in being purified of human, and as such finite, relative and temporal, attributes, evaporates into the God of deism or of pantheism. Tragic Sense Of Life

English deism made itself felt in France, as one may see in the case of Voltaire. An Outline of the History of Christian Thought Since Kant

The second cause which ministered to generate rationalism was English deism. History of Free Thought in Reference to The Christian Religion

Her modern deism is borrowed, and her pantheism is not scientific. The Religions of India Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris Jastrow

In this rudimentary form the chief speaker presses some of the objections to optimistic deism from the point of view of the fixed limitations, the inevitable relativity, of human knowledge. Diderot and the Encyclopædists (Vol 1 of 2)

In the same way the rigid God of deism, of Aristotelian monotheism, the ens summum, is a being in whom individuality, or rather simplicity, stifles personality. Tragic Sense Of Life

The popular theology which so abhorred deism was yet essentially deistic in its notion of God and of his separation from the world. An Outline of the History of Christian Thought Since Kant

The religion of this great work was deism: the philosophy of it was sensationalist and almost materialist; seeming hardly to allow the existence of anything but mechanical beings. History of Free Thought in Reference to The Christian Religion

They overload the founder's deism with the sectarian theism from which they have not really freed themselves. The Religions of India Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris Jastrow

I am never afraid of pure atheism; it is the flabby kind of sentimental deism that annoys me, because it is as slippery as air. Esther

Such is the Christian Trinity, whose deepest sense rationalistic deism has scarcely ever succeeded in understanding, that deism, which though more or less impregnated with Christianity, always remains Unitarian or Socinian. Tragic Sense Of Life

In so far as they meant that they did not believe in the God of deism and of much traditional theology, they did not stand alone in this claim. An Outline of the History of Christian Thought Since Kant

Paine's spirit is that of English deism animated by the political exasperation which had characterised the French. History of Free Thought in Reference to The Christian Religion

Their leaders and thinkers may continue to preach deism, and among their equals they will be heard and understood. The Religions of India Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris Jastrow

Exactly like the Brahmas, the other new Mahomedan sect, in the modern rational spirit, have refined away their faith to a theism or deism purged of the supernatural. New Ideas in India During the Nineteenth Century A Study of Social, Political, and Religious Developments

The twelfth century had already reached the point where the seventeenth century stood when Descartes renewed the attempt to give a solid, philosophical basis for deism by his celebrated 'Cogito, ergo sum.' Historia Calamitatum

It is a great mistake, however, in describing the influence of rationalism upon Christian thought to deal mainly with deism. An Outline of the History of Christian Thought Since Kant

The one, earnest and scholarlike, formed chiefly on the model of English deism, is represented by Lessing. History of Free Thought in Reference to The Christian Religion

A few earnest men may preach deism; the people will remain polytheists and pantheists for many generations. The Religions of India Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris Jastrow

Yet it is a common observation, especially by divines, that deism leads to atheism, and I believe the observation is well founded. Answer to Dr. Priestley's Letters to a Philosophical Unbeliever

The contrast between culture and Nature is always marked in Rousseau, and his religion was deism; Goethe resolves Nature into feeling, and his religion was a growing pantheism. The Development of the Feeling for Nature in the Middle Ages and Modern Times

And when every thing of that sort has been excluded, the residuum, in every case, as every one must see, will be deism or infidelity. Secret Societies

Such are the historical tendencies from about 1750 till about 1790—cold but learned orthodoxy; the commencement of critical rationalism, and open deism. History of Free Thought in Reference to The Christian Religion

A few striking examples are almost requisite to make an Occidental reader understand against what odds the deism of India has to contend. The Religions of India Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris Jastrow

He declared that only to superficial persons was skepticism the terminus of speculative deism. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 71, September, 1863

How different is this from the pure and simple profession of deism! The World's Greatest Books — Volume 13 — Religion and Philosophy

There was exactly the same direct spirit in its despotism as in its deism. The New Jerusalem

It is theism as opposed to error, rather than natural religion as opposed to revealed: whereas deism always implies a position antagonistic to revealed religion. History of Free Thought in Reference to The Christian Religion

His chief weapon against Lincoln was the old charges of deism and aristocracy; but they failed of effect, and in August, Lincoln was elected. McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 6, May, 1896

Warburton and a whole host of apologists carried on the battle against deism and infidelity. Burke

The Christian religion was wavering between its own historically positive base and a pure deism, which, grounded on morality, was in its turn to lay the foundation of ethics. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 09 — Lives and Letters

If, then, utility is the criterion of truth, theism—even in the mild form of deism—is proven erroneous by its disastrous consequences. History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time

The literary parallel to this tendency is not to be found in the deism of the last century, but in some of the schools of free thought in Germany and France in the present. History of Free Thought in Reference to The Christian Religion

In the matter of religion it gravitates in the same lapse of time from Catholicism to atheism, then towards deism, and then returns to the most pronounced forms of Catholicism. The Crowd; study of the popular mind

They often told one another that Edmund Burke was the man whose genius pointed him out as the triumphant champion of faith and sound philosophy against deism, atheism, and David Hume. Burke

As the result of these inquiries, he adopted the creed of pure deism and a ritual based upon the system of Zoroaster. The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28

By this "physico-theological" argument he furnishes a welcome support to deism. History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time

Born toward the close of the seventeenth century, he manifested, as a legend assures us, such a doubting spirit, even in boyhood, that his priestly preceptor predicted that he would prove a Coryphæus of deism. History of Free Thought in Reference to The Christian Religion

A change from skepticism or deism to a decided belief in the Christian Religion, no doubt exerted the strongest influence in making him a better man. From Boyhood to Manhood Life of Benjamin Franklin

But deism is a dreary religion to the mass of mankind, and the practice of morality can never take the place of adoration. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 26, December, 1859

He repaid the money that had been advanced for his theological studies, and with this change of mind he seems to have drifted to a mild deism. The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28

The general principles of deism may be compressed into a few theses. History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time

The object of the two is to state reasons for rejecting the Bible,632 and to explain the nature of the religion of deism,633 which was proposed as a substitute. History of Free Thought in Reference to The Christian Religion

Many, like Prof. Coulter, of the Chicago University, endeavor to show that evolution is reconcilable with religion--and he does show that it harmonizes with the religion of deism or infidelity. The Evolution of Man Scientifically Disproved In 50 Arguments

The old dreams of heathenism are impossible for us; modern agnosticism will make very quick work of a deism which does not cling to the Christ as the Revealer of the Godhead. Expositions of Holy Scripture: the Acts

For, provided deism should prove true in its stead, what is there to be lost if christianity fails? A Series of Letters in Defence of Divine Revelation

Locke's demand for the subjection of faith to rational criticism assures him an honorable place in the history of English deism. History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time

This form of rationalism differed from the English deism and French naturalism, in not regarding the Bible as fabulous in character, and the device of priestcraft;722 but only denied the supernatural. History of Free Thought in Reference to The Christian Religion

Religion is often taken to mean deism, or infidelity as well as Christianity. The Evolution of Man Scientifically Disproved In 50 Arguments

He combated the atheism of the Encyclopaedists, their materialism and contempt for moral virtue, for pure deism was his creed. Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities

Outside this Methodist propaganda there were also all sorts of unorthodox ideas that were spreading notions of Universalism, Arianism, deism, atheism, and freethinking, and making many converts. The Development of Religious Liberty in Connecticut

That which we have here summarized as the general position of deism, gained gradual expression through the regular development and specialization of deistic ideas in individual representatives of the movement. History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time

His doctrines come from English deism; his bitterness from Voltaire; his politics from Rousseau. History of Free Thought in Reference to The Christian Religion

They show us "where evolution and religion meet," provided deism or infidelity is religion, but not, if Christianity is religion,--an inexcusable confusion of terms. The Evolution of Man Scientifically Disproved In 50 Arguments

Already deism had rejected the evidence of a divine revelation. Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities

The God, who serves as the foundation of natural religion, or deism, is himself the greatest of mysteries. Good Sense

His Christianity as Old as the Creation is the doomsday book of deism. History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time

In Gibbon, about 1776, the ancient spirit of deism, the spirit of Bolingbroke, speaks, but the form is changed. History of Free Thought in Reference to The Christian Religion

My literary associates are all inclined to deism. The Poetical Works of Henry Kirk White : With a Memoir by Sir Harris Nicolas

In this work there is an episode, the "Savoyard Vicar's Confession of Faith," which is a declaration of pure deism, leveled especially against the errors of Catholicism. Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities

Holbach was a friend of Diderot, who had also come to reject deism. A History of Freedom of Thought

The watchword of deism was "independence in religion"; that of modern ethical philosophy is "independence in morals." History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time

Before the close of the century the real danger from deism had passed, and the natural demand for evidences had therefore in a great degree ceased. History of Free Thought in Reference to The Christian Religion

Among these, it is, too frequently, the practice to make in their heat concessions to atheism or deism, which their most confident advocates had never dared to claim, or to hope. The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 06 Reviews, Political Tracts, and Lives of Eminent Persons

Robespierre wished to sweep away Christianity as a superstition, but he would stop at deism. General History for Colleges and High Schools

He was a deist, but his deism, unlike that of Voltaire, was religious and emotional. A History of Freedom of Thought

Presbyterianism collapsed into unitarianism and there was a general tendency towards deism. Our Legal Heritage : 600-1776 King Aethelbert - King George III

The work appeals to reason, but is not open to the charge of deism. History of Free Thought in Reference to The Christian Religion

The Christian religion was fluctuating between its own historically positive base and a pure deism, which, grounded on morality, was in its turn to lay the foundation of ethics. Autobiography: Truth and Fiction Relating to My Life

The anti-theistic movement has been so obscured by the less thoroughgoing tendency of deism and by subsequent romanticism that the real issue in the eighteenth century has been largely lost from view. Baron D'Holbach : a Study of Eighteenth Century Radicalism in France

He does not even consider deism a necessary assumption for a moral code; he admits that the opinion of atheists does not undermine ethics. A History of Freedom of Thought

It is a compound made up chiefly of man-ism with but little deism, and is as near to atheism as twilight is to darkness. Writings of Thomas Paine — Volume 4 (1794-1796): the Age of Reason

Halifax had been during many years accused of scepticism, deism, atheism. The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 3

The First Consul combated at length the different systems of the philosophy on cults, natural religions, deism, etc. The Modern Regime, Volume 2

Remove the ulterior and divergent excesses and the original remains; this common essence, on which all copies harmonize, is deism.—The same operation is to be made on civil and political law. The Ancient Regime

His deism, his statements concerning the "state of nature" and the "social contract," etc., were at once recognised by the people of his day as eternal verities. The Invention of a New Religion

What have ye still to offer against the pure and moral religion of deism, in support of your system of falsehood, idolatry, and pretended revelation? Writings of Thomas Paine — Volume 4 (1794-1796): the Age of Reason

At length he lapsed into the negative deism of the French infidels, just then commencing to gain ground in France. Alvira, the Heroine of Vesuvius

I was listed directly into Mme. de V——o's coterie, and she put off the epoch of deism for two years. The Lock and Key Library Classic Mystery and Detective Stories: Old Time English

The last weak cry of the pious, pretty, half-artificial optimism and deism of the eighteenth century came in the voice of Sterne, saying, "God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb." What's Wrong with the World

As we have seen, the earliest current report charged him with deism. Lincoln; An Account of his Personal Life, Especially of its Springs of Action as Revealed and Deepened by the Ordeal of War

The only religion that has not been invented, and that has in it every evidence of divine originality, is pure and simple deism. Writings of Thomas Paine — Volume 4 (1794-1796): the Age of Reason

But to give such a remote, and even such a noble, origin to the frivolous deism of modern Masonry is about as absurd as to say that men were at one time all monkeys. Alvira, the Heroine of Vesuvius

Coming in the last century, amid the crudities of deism, they made a well-defined epoch. The Unseen World and Other Essays

She became the mother of heresiarchs, the theatre of infidelity, and by her press and preaching scattered far and wide the wildest theories of deism and unbelief. Alvira, the Heroine of Vesuvius

A third consideration is Herndon's enthusiasm for the agnostic deism that was rampant in America in his day. Lincoln; An Account of his Personal Life, Especially of its Springs of Action as Revealed and Deepened by the Ordeal of War

But pure and simple deism does not answer the purpose of despotic governments. Writings of Thomas Paine — Volume 4 (1794-1796): the Age of Reason

单词	deism
例句	deism Werline: I don’t think the Founding Fathers had a form of Christianity that we would immediately recognize today because of the presence of deism. Faith in ignorance: Politicians who quote the Bible often don’t know anything about the Bible 2016-10-08T04:00:00Z He read Mary Wollstonecraft and boasted of knowing Tom Paine, though he must have disagreed with them too, on account of Wollstonecraft's rationalism and Paine's deism. William Blake's picture of God 2010-08-17T13:00:00Z Franklin subscribed to deism, an Enlightenment-era belief in a God who created, but has no continuing involvement in, the world and the events within it. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z The courts have generally allowed for a certain tolerance of what is described as ceremonial deism, an acknowledgement of God or a creator that generally lacks any substantive religious content. American Government 2021-07-28T00:00:00Z Even some ministers approached deism, particularly in the more prestigious and well-established churches, and tried to explain Christianity by rational proof instead of spiritual conviction or biblical authority. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z Why not deism instead of theism, or pantheism instead of either? Opinion \| A Guide to Finding Faith 2021-08-14T04:00:00Z “I started feeling this longing for the culture of deism of my childhood … the warm, holy feeling” of a higher power. Melissa Broder isn't trying to be provocative. It's just who she is 2021-01-28T05:00:00Z Leaders such as Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson thought that traditional religion would eventually vanish into Unitarianism and deism. Opinion \| Gillibrand’s vilification of pro-life people proves how hopeless she is 2019-06-13T04:00:00Z The phrase “ceremonial deism” was coined by a Yale Law School dean in 1962, and in the decades since it has been used by court after court to explain exceptions to the First Amendment. Why Are Americans Still Uncomfortable with Atheism? 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z While the “better sort” flirted with deism, rekindled faith warmed more ordinary Americans. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z At roughly the same time, I was in the midst of a pilgrimage of faith that started as vague deism but eventually led me to evangelicalism. Opinion \| Why I Can No Longer Call Myself an Evangelical Republican 2017-12-09T05:00:00Z A recent academic study concluded that, despite the fact that liberals increasingly view themselves as irreligious, liberals’ views are just as much based on some sense of deism as are conservatives’ – just different. American Politics Is Split On Morals, Not Religion 2014-07-19T04:00:00Z This is a dispute between conservative Christians, not an outbreak of soggy, believe-what-you-like European deism. Lexington: All about Adam 2013-11-21T16:03:54Z There is, of course, no such thing as the perfect church, but in Orthodoxy, which radically resists the moralistic therapeutic deism that characterizes so much American Christianity, I found a soul-healing balance. I’m Still Not Going Back to the Catholic Church 2013-09-29T09:45:27Z Despite the influence of deism, eighteenth-century Americans had clearly not abandoned religion. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z Averroes opposed the pure deism of Islam to mythological pantheism and Christian anthromorphism, and his 'Commentaries of Aristotle,' although vividly coloured with Mussulman tints, impassioned all independent minds in medieval Europe. The Life of Mohammad The Prophet of Allah 2012-04-25T02:01:04.030Z Nevertheless, though the alternative in the last analysis of speculation be Catholicism or deism, the practical alternative may be Catholicism and fragmentary Christianity. The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine 2012-04-05T02:00:40.207Z If you ask, what system these men adopt, I answer, Some build on deism a morality founded on self-preservation, self-interest, and self-honour; others laugh at all morality, except that which being neglected violently disturbs society. Fletcher of Madeley 2012-02-23T03:00:39.877Z French deism, the direct progeny of the English movement, was equally short-lived. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 10 "David, St" to "Demidov" 2012-02-17T03:00:33.923Z Inspired by the Enlightenment’s cult of reason and deism, they also attacked the Catholic Church for defending the old order with what they called “superstitions.” Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z In the struggle against deism that marked the first quarter of the eighteenth century, the widespread influence of such books told against infidelity. The Anglo-French Entente in the Seventeenth Century 2011-11-04T02:00:24.773Z Catholicism, or deism, is indeed the only ultimately logical and consistent alternative, though, happily, few men in rejecting Catholicism are logically consistent enough to reject Christianity. The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine 2012-04-05T02:00:40.207Z Materialism is not rare; deism and Socinianism are very common; and a set of freethinkers, great admirers of Voltaire and Rousseau, Bayle and Mirabeau, seem bent upon destroying Christianity and government. Fletcher of Madeley 2012-02-23T03:00:39.877Z Outside France, Germany and England, there were no great schools of thought distinctively deistic, though in most countries there is to be found a rationalistic anti-clerical movement which partakes of the character of deism. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 10 "David, St" to "Demidov" 2012-02-17T03:00:33.923Z Leaders like Thomas Jefferson embraced Enlightenment deism, and the revolutionary writer Thomas Paine turned from political tracts to mockery of Christian revelation. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z English deism was not a religion, but at first a philosophy, and afterwards a scientific generalization. The Life Of Thomas Paine, Vol. II. (of II) With A History of His Literary, Political and Religious Career in America France, and England 2011-10-12T02:00:47.957Z Paine's "deism" differed from Franklin's only in being more fervently religious. The Life Of Thomas Paine, Vol. I. (of II) With A History of His Literary, Political and Religious Career in America France, and England; to which is added a Sketch of Paine by William Cobbett 2011-10-12T02:00:38.787Z A loose, easy-going, yet confident deism seemed almost to have superseded Christianity. Fletcher of Madeley 2012-02-23T03:00:39.877Z But the intenser religious life before which deism fell was also a revolt against the abstract and argumentative orthodoxy of the time. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 10 "David, St" to "Demidov" 2012-02-17T03:00:33.923Z This movement was essentially different from English deism. Church History, Vol. 3 of 3 2011-09-14T02:00:43.813Z The utilitarian English race, always the stronghold of science, had established the freedom of the new deism, which thus became the mould into which all unorthodoxies ran. The Life Of Thomas Paine, Vol. II. (of II) With A History of His Literary, Political and Religious Career in America France, and England 2011-10-12T02:00:47.957Z He also gave much time to the reading of Schiller, in whose works he found an assault on the frigid deism then predominant in Germany. The Irish Ecclesiastical Record, Volume 1, June 1865 2011-08-13T02:00:20.940Z We now descend gradually and almost insensibly in the scale of deism, until little by little we reach a condition of gross idolatry, not far removed from that still practised by many African tribes. The Mythologies of Ancient Mexico and Peru 2011-06-13T02:00:26.863Z Even now many undoubtedly cling to a theology nearly allied to deism. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 10 "David, St" to "Demidov" 2012-02-17T03:00:33.923Z In England during the first half of the century deism had still several active propagandists, and throughout the whole century efforts, not altogether unsuccessful, were made to spread Unitarian views. Church History, Vol. 3 of 3 2011-09-14T02:00:43.813Z It was thus the Christian prelate who had abandoned the primitive faith in the divine humanity for a natural deism, while the man he calls a "child of the devil" was defending the divine humanity. The Life Of Thomas Paine, Vol. II. (of II) With A History of His Literary, Political and Religious Career in America France, and England 2011-10-12T02:00:47.957Z These philosophers appear to have advanced far into 612 their inquiries, for they were branded by atheism or deism. Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z It was English deism “mixed with cunning sparks of”—French wit. French Classics 2011-05-22T02:00:12.620Z Probably Chubb’s position on this head is most fairly characteristic of deism. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 10 "David, St" to "Demidov" 2012-02-17T03:00:33.923Z Arminian pelagianism, recommended by brilliant scholarship, English deism, spread by translations and refutations, and French naturalism, introduced by a great and much honoured king, were the outward factors in securing this result. Church History, Vol. 3 of 3 2011-09-14T02:00:43.813Z The cant of the time was that "deism might do to live by but not to die by." The Life Of Thomas Paine, Vol. II. (of II) With A History of His Literary, Political and Religious Career in America France, and England 2011-10-12T02:00:47.957Z Rational deism and clerical religion were to him two equally abhorrent incarnations of the same evil spirit, appearing now as negation and now as restriction. William Blake A Critical Essay 2011-05-04T02:00:18.110Z The general position of English deism was the acceptance of the belief in the existence of God, and the profession of natural religion along with opposition to the mysteries and special claims of Christianity. The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 3: Estremoz to Felspar 2011-04-14T02:00:59.373Z The controversies they had provoked collapsed, and deism became a by-word even amongst those who were in no degree anxious to appear as champions of orthodoxy. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 10 "David, St" to "Demidov" 2012-02-17T03:00:33.923Z Locke accomplished the descent from Bacon to deism and materialism, so Wolff effected the transition from Leibnitz to the popular philosophy. Church History, Vol. 3 of 3 2011-09-14T02:00:43.813Z He made loud professions of deism, and of devotion to Paine. The Life Of Thomas Paine, Vol. II. (of II) With A History of His Literary, Political and Religious Career in America France, and England 2011-10-12T02:00:47.957Z That he did not allow Newtonianism to draw him to deism may be seen in Stiles's gratification that Winthrop "was a Firm friend to Revelation in opposition to Deism." Benjamin Franklin Representative selections, with introduction, bibliograpy, and notes 2011-03-08T03:00:46.777Z Defenders of Christianity and of deism alike Moral and religious atmosphere. appealed to the reason alone. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 5 English History 2011-02-12T03:00:32.473Z Externally Chubb is interesting as representing the deism of the people contrasted with that of Tindal the theologian. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 10 "David, St" to "Demidov" 2012-02-17T03:00:33.923Z The simple religious system of deism embraced God, providence, freedom of the will, virtue, and the immortality of the soul. Church History, Vol. 3 of 3 2011-09-14T02:00:43.813Z An occasional presidential speech in the diction of “ceremonial deism,” briefly raising our eyes from our everyday chores to things of the spirit, is certainly appropriate. 2010-02-10T22:07:00Z Here were variations from Calvinism's common path which, when augmented by English and French liberalism, by the influence of Quakerism and the frontier, were to give rise to democracy, rationalism, and scientific deism. Benjamin Franklin Representative selections, with introduction, bibliograpy, and notes 2011-03-08T03:00:46.777Z In spite of his deism and his jokes about sacred things, he enjoyed most friendly and even influential relations with religious people, who might have been supposed to have a horror of him. The True Benjamin Franklin Yet English deism was in many ways characteristically English. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 10 "David, St" to "Demidov" 2012-02-17T03:00:33.923Z Among the numerous opponents of deism these are chief: Samuel Clarke, died a.d. Church History, Vol. 3 of 3 2011-09-14T02:00:43.813Z The term has been often loosely used as equivalent with infidelity generally, with deism, with pantheism, and with the denial of immortality. The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 2 Amiel to Atrauli That Newtonianism and even deism made progress at Yale is the tenor of Johnson's backward glance. Benjamin Franklin Representative selections, with introduction, bibliograpy, and notes 2011-03-08T03:00:46.777Z From boyish deism he had passed to youthful negation, and from negation returned to deism again. The True Benjamin Franklin Diderot was for a time heartily in sympathy with deistic thought; and the Encyclop�die was in its earlier portion an organ of deism. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 10 "David, St" to "Demidov" 2012-02-17T03:00:33.923Z As an opponent of deism in sermons and treatises he had gained a high reputation as a theologian, when his work, “The Scripture Doctrine of the Trinity,” in a.d. Church History, Vol. 3 of 3 2011-09-14T02:00:43.813Z In such an atmosphere, deism readily uttered its protest against mysterious revelation. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 3 "Apollodorus" to "Aral" That there was no dearth of advanced natural science and philosophy, even suggestive of deism, is fairly evident. Benjamin Franklin Representative selections, with introduction, bibliograpy, and notes 2011-03-08T03:00:46.777Z So Franklin’s belief at the close of his life was deism, which was the same faith that he had professed when a boy. The True Benjamin Franklin For men like Hume and Gibbon the standpoint of deism was long left behind; yet Gibbon’s famous two chapters might well have been written by a deist. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 10 "David, St" to "Demidov" 2012-02-17T03:00:33.923Z Whilst English deism with its air of thoroughness made way among the learned, the poison of frivolous French naturalism committed its ravages among the higher circles. Church History, Vol. 3 of 3 2011-09-14T02:00:43.813Z Carri�re identified himself with the school of the younger Fichte as one who held the theistic view of the world which aimed at reconciling the contradictions between deism and pantheism. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 4 "Carnegie Andrew" to "Casus Belli" Chester E. Jorgenson is preparing an analysis and interpretation of Franklin's brand of scientific deism, its sources and relation to his economic, political, and literary theories and practice. Benjamin Franklin Representative selections, with introduction, bibliograpy, and notes 2011-03-08T03:00:46.777Z It was written to combat superstition, fanaticism, and atheism on the one hand, and to defend religion, morality, and deism on the other. Junius Unmasked or, Thomas Paine the author of the Letters of Junius and the Declaration of Independence But deism is not a compact system nor is it the outcome of any one line of philosophical thought. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 10 "David, St" to "Demidov" 2012-02-17T03:00:33.923Z It opposes the view of deism that God withdrew from His creation, indifferent to the destiny of His creatures. Jewish Theology Formerly this kind of declaration was called "deism" and Herr Duehring says that we had not much regard for it, but it now appears that the world has gone backwards in this respect also. Landmarks of Scientific Socialism "Anti-Duehring" One can only conjecture the extent to which this library would perplex, astonish, and finally convert men to rationalism and scientific deism, and release them from bondage to throne and altar. Benjamin Franklin Representative selections, with introduction, bibliograpy, and notes 2011-03-08T03:00:46.777Z In ours he is viewed as a teacher of deism. History of Free Thought in Reference to The Christian Religion Yet deism deserves to be remembered as a strenuous protest against bibliolatry in every degree and against all traditionalism in theology. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 10 "David, St" to "Demidov" 2012-02-17T03:00:33.923Z It is improbable that, in his heart, he felt that the preaching of pure deism could ever secure such results. Benjamin Franklin A Picture of the Struggles of Our Infant Nation One Hundred Years Ago American Pioneers and Patriots Series In religious ontology we find it in deism. Monophysitism Past and Present A Study in Christology Since his philosophic rationale preceded his activities in science, it will not do to suggest that his interest in science was responsible for his scientific deism. Benjamin Franklin Representative selections, with introduction, bibliograpy, and notes 2011-03-08T03:00:46.777Z It was merely deism, built on a sounder basis, and spiritualized by contact with a truer philosophy. History of Free Thought in Reference to The Christian Religion The impulses that promoted a vein of thought cognate to deism were active both before and after the time of its greatest notoriety. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 10 "David, St" to "Demidov" 2012-02-17T03:00:33.923Z Indeed this borders upon deism; for the deists argue, “Do you think that praying will make God change his mind?” A Solemn Caution Against the Ten Horns of Calvinism The Christological counterpart of dualism and of deism is Nestorianism. Monophysitism Past and Present A Study in Christology Commonly this creed has been described as illustrating the deism of Lord Herbert of Cherbury. Benjamin Franklin Representative selections, with introduction, bibliograpy, and notes 2011-03-08T03:00:46.777Z Leehler's work on English deism, for example,28 is a singular example of truthful narrative; and Leland's,29 though controversial, is worthy of nearly the same praise. History of Free Thought in Reference to The Christian Religion But is it not a great leading feature of deism itself, that it exalts the power of God at the expense of his infinite moral perfections? A Theodicy, or, Vindication of the Divine Glory Abstract philosophy might lead to deism or infidelity. The English Utilitarians, Volume I. Upon him were heaped every possible and most contradictory accusation—of skepticism and pantheism, of deism and atheism, of superstition and enthusiasm, of irony and passion, of sensuality and ideality, of generosity and avarice. My Recollections of Lord Byron Likewise, his views on education were conditioned by his faith in intellectual progress, in the might of Reason, which in turn was in part the result of his scientific deism. Benjamin Franklin Representative selections, with introduction, bibliograpy, and notes 2011-03-08T03:00:46.777Z He has not indeed expressed it definitely in his writings; and an ethical system which formed the basis of Butler's sermons,407 cannot necessarily be charged with deism. History of Free Thought in Reference to The Christian Religion That book, he thought, as others have thought, was conclusive against the optimistic deism which it assails; but he thought also that the argument really destroyed Butler's own standing-ground. The English Utilitarians, Volume II (of 3) James Mill Shakspere, then, could find in Montaigne the traditional deism of the pagan and Christian world, without any colour of specifically Christian faith, and with a direct lead to unbelief in a future state. Montaigne and Shakspere Another group of ideas belonging to philosophical theology consists of three generalizations respecting God's relation to the world, known as theism, pantheism, and deism. The Approach to Philosophy The effort of deism to simplify religion was historically shared by Quakerism. Benjamin Franklin Representative selections, with introduction, bibliograpy, and notes 2011-03-08T03:00:46.777Z These two names mark the period which we called the decline of deism. History of Free Thought in Reference to The Christian Religion He restored the sentiment of religion in an age of abstract deism or turbid materialism. A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II. This religion is considered by some a pure deism, by others a belief with political aims, the followers of which worship the departed heroes of the country. The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II He was one of the group that introduced the modern continental notation of the calculus into England, replacing the cumbersome notation of Newton, passing from "the dotage of fluxions to the deism of the calculus." A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I Yet perhaps the modus operandi of this myriad-minded colonial, this provincial Leonardo, is best explained in reference to the thought pattern of scientific deism. Benjamin Franklin Representative selections, with introduction, bibliograpy, and notes 2011-03-08T03:00:46.777Z Two writers of opposite schools are usually regarded as marking the rise of deism, both of whom belonged to this phase of it, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, and Hobbes. History of Free Thought in Reference to The Christian Religion The philosophy of D’Alembert’s Dream is definite enough, and far enough removed alike from deism and scepticism. Diderot and the Encyclopædists Volume II. Neither should we have to fear that from such a theory cold deism would be substituted for our theism, full of life. The Theories of Darwin and Their Relation to Philosophy, Religion, and Morality The Biblical idea runs out toward deism in Duns Scotus and Calvin. Christianity and Progress Franklin's natural religion—like deism in general—failed, as scriptural religion does not, to establish a union between theology, the religious life, and ethical behavior. Benjamin Franklin Representative selections, with introduction, bibliograpy, and notes 2011-03-08T03:00:46.777Z The amount of thought contributed by him to deism was small; for his influence on his successors was unimportant. History of Free Thought in Reference to The Christian Religion On the third side, my uncle, as a Mahometan, wants to convert him to deism; you may judge from this how much harmony there is between us; you might take us for an Academy! French and Oriental Love in a Harem But there is nothing in his poems or in his letters which goes beyond sincere deism—nothing which is in any way distinctively Christian. Robert Burns In the eighteenth century an extreme form of deism held the field and God, as personal will, was conceived as the Creator, who in a dim and distant past had made all things. Christianity and Progress Before he became an economist, a statesman, a man of letters, a scientist, he had embraced scientific deism, primarily impelled by Newtonianism. Benjamin Franklin Representative selections, with introduction, bibliograpy, and notes 2011-03-08T03:00:46.777Z In the period which we are now examining, deism was almost entirely confined to the upper classes. History of Free Thought in Reference to The Christian Religion It suggests the cynicism of the heartless fine gentleman who sneers at Wesley and Bunyan, and covers his want of feeling by a stilted deism. English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century Nearly at the same time an important change passed over her religious views, and the vague deism of her youth deepened into a positive, definite, and earnest Christianity, but without mysticism and without intolerance. Historical and Political Essays In the not far distant past deism and pantheism served as a polite subterfuge for atheism. The Necessity of Atheism In general, emotional Methodism was not responsive to science as a basis for rationalistic deism, although to a considerable extent Methodism and deism synchronized in their endeavor to relieve social suffering. Benjamin Franklin Representative selections, with introduction, bibliograpy, and notes 2011-03-08T03:00:46.777Z The monotheism constitutes also a line of demarcation between deism and more modern forms of unbelief. History of Free Thought in Reference to The Christian Religion But the deism of the 17th century is a phase of thought that has no living reality now, and the whole aspect of the religious problem has been completely changed. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" Haeckel has chosen this word Monism, as opposed to theism, deism, materialism, spiritism. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 12 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Scientists Campanus and Adam Pastor and Servetus and the Sozinis had no aversion to the supernatural and made no claim to reduce Christianity to a humanitarian deism, as some modern Unitarians would do. The Age of the Reformation Scholars have yet to work out the extent to which Freemasonry, yokefellow of deism, reinforced free thought and was one of the subversive forces breaking down colonial orthodoxy. Benjamin Franklin Representative selections, with introduction, bibliograpy, and notes 2011-03-08T03:00:46.777Z He was at first a unitarian minister; but, changing from unitarianism into deism, he left that body, and became a preacher in Boston, until he was compelled to visit Europe on account of enfeebled health. History of Free Thought in Reference to The Christian Religion Thereby they fall either into atheism, or into deism, two things which the Christian religion abhors almost equally. Pascal's Pensées If you think the most important of the discussions of our day to be that between natural and revealed religion, between deism and the Gospel, you have not well discerned the signs of the times. The Heavenly Father Lectures on Modern Atheism Moreover, the critique of the new atheism was more searching than had been that of the old deism. The Age of the Reformation Among those relevant for our study are: the ubiquitous frontier, and the rise of Quakerism, deism, Methodism, and science. Benjamin Franklin Representative selections, with introduction, bibliograpy, and notes 2011-03-08T03:00:46.777Z The second forms a transition to the two latter, being philosophy applied to criticism, and is the form which deism now took. History of Free Thought in Reference to The Christian Religion The God which serves as a foundation to natural religion, to theism or to deism, is Himself the greatest mystery to a mind wishing to dwell upon Him. Superstition In All Ages (1732) Common Sense The idea of a general government of God which does not descend to details—such is the essence of deism. The Heavenly Father Lectures on Modern Atheism The same treatment of Mohammedanism, as that accorded by Harnack to Christianity would, as Loisy remarks, deduce from it the same humanitarian deism as that now fashionable at Berlin. The Age of the Reformation The Church of England through the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries had "pursued a liberal latitudinarian policy which, as a mode of thought, tended to promote deism by emphasizing rational religion and minimizing revelation." Benjamin Franklin Representative selections, with introduction, bibliograpy, and notes 2011-03-08T03:00:46.777Z In the later steps the influence of the French school of speculation is already observable, mingling itself with English deism. History of Free Thought in Reference to The Christian Religion But the most prevailing opinion, if you search into the secret of the effendis, is, plain deism. Letters of the Right Honourable Lady M—y W—y M—e Written during Her Travels in Europe, Asia and Africa to Persons of Distinction, Men of Letters, &c. in Different Parts of Europe This coarse avowal of adherence to the elder, and, after all, more intelligible deism, brought down upon him at once two of the company. The Eclipse of Faith Or, A Visit To A Religious Sceptic Compared with the emotional deism of Caitanya this faith seems somewhat philosophic and reticent. Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 2 The movement of English thought known as deism was a distinct forerunner of the rationalist movement, within the particular area of the discussion of religion. An Outline of the History of Christian Thought Since Kant This creed is deism, and bears a very striking resemblance to that taught by the English deists. History of Free Thought in Reference to The Christian Religion In his "Essay on Man," Pope versified, without well understanding, the optimistic deism of Leibnitz, as expounded by Shaftesbury and Bolingbroke. A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century It was pronounced pernicious, dangerous, and tending to deism, chiefly on account of some too suggestive comparisons between the miraculous healings in the New Testament, and those ascribed in the more ancient legend to Æsculapius. Diderot and the Encyclopædists (Vol 1 of 2) An Otaheitean or an Esquimaux knows nothing of Christianity; does he know more of the principles of deism or morality? which, notwithstanding his ignorance, are neither untrue, nor unimportant, nor uncertain. Evidence of Christianity It was not a dilettante and aristocratic movement as deism had been in England. An Outline of the History of Christian Thought Since Kant We paused there, because deism then ends as a literary movement. History of Free Thought in Reference to The Christian Religion Not only is it, for him, an encroachment upon the rights of Christ, but it leads to deism in the gentry and to dissent among the common people. Political Thought in England from Locke to Bentham And the tendencies of deism in France grew more violently destructive, not only because religious superstition was grosser, but because that superstition was incorporated in a strong and inexpansible social structure. Diderot and the Encyclopædists (Vol 1 of 2) The anthropomorphic God, the God who is felt, in being purified of human, and as such finite, relative and temporal, attributes, evaporates into the God of deism or of pantheism. Tragic Sense Of Life English deism made itself felt in France, as one may see in the case of Voltaire. An Outline of the History of Christian Thought Since Kant The second cause which ministered to generate rationalism was English deism. History of Free Thought in Reference to The Christian Religion Her modern deism is borrowed, and her pantheism is not scientific. The Religions of India Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris Jastrow In this rudimentary form the chief speaker presses some of the objections to optimistic deism from the point of view of the fixed limitations, the inevitable relativity, of human knowledge. Diderot and the Encyclopædists (Vol 1 of 2) In the same way the rigid God of deism, of Aristotelian monotheism, the ens summum, is a being in whom individuality, or rather simplicity, stifles personality. Tragic Sense Of Life The popular theology which so abhorred deism was yet essentially deistic in its notion of God and of his separation from the world. An Outline of the History of Christian Thought Since Kant The religion of this great work was deism: the philosophy of it was sensationalist and almost materialist; seeming hardly to allow the existence of anything but mechanical beings. History of Free Thought in Reference to The Christian Religion They overload the founder's deism with the sectarian theism from which they have not really freed themselves. The Religions of India Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris Jastrow I am never afraid of pure atheism; it is the flabby kind of sentimental deism that annoys me, because it is as slippery as air. Esther Such is the Christian Trinity, whose deepest sense rationalistic deism has scarcely ever succeeded in understanding, that deism, which though more or less impregnated with Christianity, always remains Unitarian or Socinian. Tragic Sense Of Life In so far as they meant that they did not believe in the God of deism and of much traditional theology, they did not stand alone in this claim. An Outline of the History of Christian Thought Since Kant Paine's spirit is that of English deism animated by the political exasperation which had characterised the French. History of Free Thought in Reference to The Christian Religion Their leaders and thinkers may continue to preach deism, and among their equals they will be heard and understood. The Religions of India Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris Jastrow Exactly like the Brahmas, the other new Mahomedan sect, in the modern rational spirit, have refined away their faith to a theism or deism purged of the supernatural. New Ideas in India During the Nineteenth Century A Study of Social, Political, and Religious Developments The twelfth century had already reached the point where the seventeenth century stood when Descartes renewed the attempt to give a solid, philosophical basis for deism by his celebrated 'Cogito, ergo sum.' Historia Calamitatum It is a great mistake, however, in describing the influence of rationalism upon Christian thought to deal mainly with deism. An Outline of the History of Christian Thought Since Kant The one, earnest and scholarlike, formed chiefly on the model of English deism, is represented by Lessing. History of Free Thought in Reference to The Christian Religion A few earnest men may preach deism; the people will remain polytheists and pantheists for many generations. The Religions of India Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris Jastrow Yet it is a common observation, especially by divines, that deism leads to atheism, and I believe the observation is well founded. Answer to Dr. Priestley's Letters to a Philosophical Unbeliever The contrast between culture and Nature is always marked in Rousseau, and his religion was deism; Goethe resolves Nature into feeling, and his religion was a growing pantheism. The Development of the Feeling for Nature in the Middle Ages and Modern Times And when every thing of that sort has been excluded, the residuum, in every case, as every one must see, will be deism or infidelity. Secret Societies Such are the historical tendencies from about 1750 till about 1790—cold but learned orthodoxy; the commencement of critical rationalism, and open deism. History of Free Thought in Reference to The Christian Religion A few striking examples are almost requisite to make an Occidental reader understand against what odds the deism of India has to contend. The Religions of India Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris Jastrow He declared that only to superficial persons was skepticism the terminus of speculative deism. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 71, September, 1863 How different is this from the pure and simple profession of deism! The World's Greatest Books — Volume 13 — Religion and Philosophy There was exactly the same direct spirit in its despotism as in its deism. The New Jerusalem It is theism as opposed to error, rather than natural religion as opposed to revealed: whereas deism always implies a position antagonistic to revealed religion. History of Free Thought in Reference to The Christian Religion His chief weapon against Lincoln was the old charges of deism and aristocracy; but they failed of effect, and in August, Lincoln was elected. McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 6, May, 1896 Warburton and a whole host of apologists carried on the battle against deism and infidelity. Burke The Christian religion was wavering between its own historically positive base and a pure deism, which, grounded on morality, was in its turn to lay the foundation of ethics. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 09 — Lives and Letters If, then, utility is the criterion of truth, theism—even in the mild form of deism—is proven erroneous by its disastrous consequences. History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time The literary parallel to this tendency is not to be found in the deism of the last century, but in some of the schools of free thought in Germany and France in the present. History of Free Thought in Reference to The Christian Religion In the matter of religion it gravitates in the same lapse of time from Catholicism to atheism, then towards deism, and then returns to the most pronounced forms of Catholicism. The Crowd; study of the popular mind They often told one another that Edmund Burke was the man whose genius pointed him out as the triumphant champion of faith and sound philosophy against deism, atheism, and David Hume. Burke As the result of these inquiries, he adopted the creed of pure deism and a ritual based upon the system of Zoroaster. The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 By this "physico-theological" argument he furnishes a welcome support to deism. History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time Born toward the close of the seventeenth century, he manifested, as a legend assures us, such a doubting spirit, even in boyhood, that his priestly preceptor predicted that he would prove a Coryphæus of deism. History of Free Thought in Reference to The Christian Religion A change from skepticism or deism to a decided belief in the Christian Religion, no doubt exerted the strongest influence in making him a better man. From Boyhood to Manhood Life of Benjamin Franklin But deism is a dreary religion to the mass of mankind, and the practice of morality can never take the place of adoration. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 26, December, 1859 He repaid the money that had been advanced for his theological studies, and with this change of mind he seems to have drifted to a mild deism. The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 The general principles of deism may be compressed into a few theses. History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time The object of the two is to state reasons for rejecting the Bible,632 and to explain the nature of the religion of deism,633 which was proposed as a substitute. History of Free Thought in Reference to The Christian Religion Many, like Prof. Coulter, of the Chicago University, endeavor to show that evolution is reconcilable with religion--and he does show that it harmonizes with the religion of deism or infidelity. The Evolution of Man Scientifically Disproved In 50 Arguments The old dreams of heathenism are impossible for us; modern agnosticism will make very quick work of a deism which does not cling to the Christ as the Revealer of the Godhead. Expositions of Holy Scripture: the Acts For, provided deism should prove true in its stead, what is there to be lost if christianity fails? A Series of Letters in Defence of Divine Revelation Locke's demand for the subjection of faith to rational criticism assures him an honorable place in the history of English deism. History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time This form of rationalism differed from the English deism and French naturalism, in not regarding the Bible as fabulous in character, and the device of priestcraft;722 but only denied the supernatural. History of Free Thought in Reference to The Christian Religion Religion is often taken to mean deism, or infidelity as well as Christianity. The Evolution of Man Scientifically Disproved In 50 Arguments He combated the atheism of the Encyclopaedists, their materialism and contempt for moral virtue, for pure deism was his creed. Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities Outside this Methodist propaganda there were also all sorts of unorthodox ideas that were spreading notions of Universalism, Arianism, deism, atheism, and freethinking, and making many converts. The Development of Religious Liberty in Connecticut That which we have here summarized as the general position of deism, gained gradual expression through the regular development and specialization of deistic ideas in individual representatives of the movement. History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time His doctrines come from English deism; his bitterness from Voltaire; his politics from Rousseau. History of Free Thought in Reference to The Christian Religion They show us "where evolution and religion meet," provided deism or infidelity is religion, but not, if Christianity is religion,--an inexcusable confusion of terms. The Evolution of Man Scientifically Disproved In 50 Arguments Already deism had rejected the evidence of a divine revelation. Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities The God, who serves as the foundation of natural religion, or deism, is himself the greatest of mysteries. Good Sense His Christianity as Old as the Creation is the doomsday book of deism. History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time In Gibbon, about 1776, the ancient spirit of deism, the spirit of Bolingbroke, speaks, but the form is changed. History of Free Thought in Reference to The Christian Religion My literary associates are all inclined to deism. The Poetical Works of Henry Kirk White : With a Memoir by Sir Harris Nicolas In this work there is an episode, the "Savoyard Vicar's Confession of Faith," which is a declaration of pure deism, leveled especially against the errors of Catholicism. Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities Holbach was a friend of Diderot, who had also come to reject deism. A History of Freedom of Thought The watchword of deism was "independence in religion"; that of modern ethical philosophy is "independence in morals." History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time Before the close of the century the real danger from deism had passed, and the natural demand for evidences had therefore in a great degree ceased. History of Free Thought in Reference to The Christian Religion Among these, it is, too frequently, the practice to make in their heat concessions to atheism or deism, which their most confident advocates had never dared to claim, or to hope. The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 06 Reviews, Political Tracts, and Lives of Eminent Persons Robespierre wished to sweep away Christianity as a superstition, but he would stop at deism. General History for Colleges and High Schools He was a deist, but his deism, unlike that of Voltaire, was religious and emotional. A History of Freedom of Thought Presbyterianism collapsed into unitarianism and there was a general tendency towards deism. Our Legal Heritage : 600-1776 King Aethelbert - King George III The work appeals to reason, but is not open to the charge of deism. History of Free Thought in Reference to The Christian Religion The Christian religion was fluctuating between its own historically positive base and a pure deism, which, grounded on morality, was in its turn to lay the foundation of ethics. Autobiography: Truth and Fiction Relating to My Life The anti-theistic movement has been so obscured by the less thoroughgoing tendency of deism and by subsequent romanticism that the real issue in the eighteenth century has been largely lost from view. Baron D'Holbach : a Study of Eighteenth Century Radicalism in France He does not even consider deism a necessary assumption for a moral code; he admits that the opinion of atheists does not undermine ethics. A History of Freedom of Thought The twelfth century had already reached the point where the seventeenth century stood when Descartes renewed the attempt to give a solid, philosophical basis for deism by his celebrated "Cogito, ergo sum." Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres It is a compound made up chiefly of man-ism with but little deism, and is as near to atheism as twilight is to darkness. Writings of Thomas Paine — Volume 4 (1794-1796): the Age of Reason Halifax had been during many years accused of scepticism, deism, atheism. The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 3 The First Consul combated at length the different systems of the philosophy on cults, natural religions, deism, etc. The Modern Regime, Volume 2 Remove the ulterior and divergent excesses and the original remains; this common essence, on which all copies harmonize, is deism.—The same operation is to be made on civil and political law. The Ancient Regime His deism, his statements concerning the "state of nature" and the "social contract," etc., were at once recognised by the people of his day as eternal verities. The Invention of a New Religion What have ye still to offer against the pure and moral religion of deism, in support of your system of falsehood, idolatry, and pretended revelation? Writings of Thomas Paine — Volume 4 (1794-1796): the Age of Reason At length he lapsed into the negative deism of the French infidels, just then commencing to gain ground in France. Alvira, the Heroine of Vesuvius I was listed directly into Mme. de V——o's coterie, and she put off the epoch of deism for two years. The Lock and Key Library Classic Mystery and Detective Stories: Old Time English The last weak cry of the pious, pretty, half-artificial optimism and deism of the eighteenth century came in the voice of Sterne, saying, "God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb." What's Wrong with the World As we have seen, the earliest current report charged him with deism. Lincoln; An Account of his Personal Life, Especially of its Springs of Action as Revealed and Deepened by the Ordeal of War The only religion that has not been invented, and that has in it every evidence of divine originality, is pure and simple deism. Writings of Thomas Paine — Volume 4 (1794-1796): the Age of Reason But to give such a remote, and even such a noble, origin to the frivolous deism of modern Masonry is about as absurd as to say that men were at one time all monkeys. Alvira, the Heroine of Vesuvius Coming in the last century, amid the crudities of deism, they made a well-defined epoch. The Unseen World and Other Essays She became the mother of heresiarchs, the theatre of infidelity, and by her press and preaching scattered far and wide the wildest theories of deism and unbelief. Alvira, the Heroine of Vesuvius A third consideration is Herndon's enthusiasm for the agnostic deism that was rampant in America in his day. Lincoln; An Account of his Personal Life, Especially of its Springs of Action as Revealed and Deepened by the Ordeal of War But pure and simple deism does not answer the purpose of despotic governments. Writings of Thomas Paine — Volume 4 (1794-1796): the Age of Reason
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