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Deism

Deism (/ˈdiːɪzəm/ DEE-iz-əm or /ˈdeɪ.ɪzəm/ DAY-iz-əm; derived from the Latin term deus, meaning 'god') is the belief, based solely upon logic and observation while rejecting any supernatural speculation, that a Supreme Being or God created the universe. As a philosophical position and rationalistic theology that rejects prophecies, revelations, and…

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Enlightenment Deism

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related to Secondary sources · 186
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related to Histories · 81
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related to In the United States · 45
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related to Further reading · 39
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related to Primary sources · 39
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related to In Nazi Germany · 37
Deism → Adolf Hitler, Although, Christian, Christianity, Church, German, German Evangelical Church Confederation, Germanic, God, Gottgläubig, Gottgläubige, Gottgläubigkeit, He, In, In Nazi Germany, Interior Minister Wilhelm Frick, Kirchenaustritt, National Socialist German Workers, National Socialist Programme, Nazi
related to Peak (1696–1801) · 25
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related to Herbert of Cherbury and early English Deism · 22
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related to In France and continental Europe · 22
Deism → Catholic Church, Cult, Deistic Cult, During, England, English Deism, France, French, French Deists, French Revolution, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Maximilien Robespierre, Montaigne, Montesquieu, Newtonian, Pierre Bayle, Reason, Robespierre's, Supreme Being, The
related to history · 21
Deism → AD, Alexandria, Ancient Greece, BC, Christian, Chrysippus, Citium, Clement, Deistic, For, God, Greek, In, Stoic, Stoicism, Stoics, The, The Hellenistic, The Stoics, Xenophanes

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Thomas Chubbinstance ofin contrast with fringe writers0.80text
Thomas Woolston.Other English Deists prominent during the period include William Wollastoninstance ofin contrast with fringe writers0.80text
Charles Blountinstance ofin contrast with fringe writers0.80text
Henry St Johninstance ofin contrast with fringe writers0.80text
1st Viscount Bolingbrokeinstance ofin contrast with fringe writers0.80text
andinstance ofin contrast with fringe writers0.80text
in the latter partinstance ofin contrast with fringe writers0.80text
Peter Annetinstance ofin contrast with fringe writers0.80text
and Thomas Morganinstance ofin contrast with fringe writers0.80text
David Hume began studying the natural history of religioninstance ofThis position became less and less plausible as Enlightenment philosophers0.80text
suggested that the origin of religion was not in reason but in emotionsinstance ofThis position became less and less plausible as Enlightenment philosophers0.80text
such as the fear of the unknown.Immortality of the soulDifferent Deists had different beliefs about the immortality of the soulinstance ofThis position became less and less plausible as Enlightenment philosophers0.80text

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