Sentences with phrase «deism as»

Paley was the theologian of deism as Locke was its philosopher.

Yes are my words are so written as being of deism but I harken upon deism as being God's unending sons, those elemental gods who did make in guilts shamefulness their long ago taking of mankind's women, an unjust travesty to be once warned against but now acclaimed as high minded treasurings!

Yes are my words as being of deism but I harken upon deism as being God's Sons who did make in guilts shamefulness their taking of mankind's women, an unjust travesty to be once warned but now acclaimed as high minded treasurings.

Atheism or agnosticism replaced theism or deism as the dominant religion of the cultured.

Not exact matches

Franklin, for example, waffled between Quakerism as a boy and youth, Presbyterian (for five weeks), Episcopalian, atheism and Deism.

But whether atheism, humanism, evolution, deism, new age, Islam, Christianity, or Judaism — you believe these things as facts, and you most likely have plenty of writing to «back it up.».

Of course Deism holds to the belief of God as the creator of the universe.

Just as the deism of Tom Paine posed a problem for the Churches as a new frontier in thought, so did the physical frontier present the Churches with a challenge.

Is not this whole mode of thought simply part of the evil legacy from deism, in which God was conceived as being absent from his world, and in which therefore he must be thought to «intrude» into his world, to «intervene» in it, whenever he would act in any distinctive and particular way?

The increasing individualism of society can also be leveraged to enable young people to question Moralistic Therapeutic Deism and to distinguish themselves as Christian individuals, Smith and Denton contend.

Deism — belief that reason and observation of the natural world are sufficient to determine the existence of a Creator, accompanied with the rejection of revelation and authority as a source of religious knowledge.

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He mentions panentheism as a philosophy which, like Christian theology, avoids the errors of pantheism and deism, but dismisses it as an expression of the Christian view because it is not sufficiently dynamic.

The book presents a progression through deism but does not conclude as it being the final destination.

It is very important to see that panentheism is intended to be a mean between the absentee - God of deism — who is indeed also the God of much popular Christian teaching and preaching and of much supposedly orthodox theology — and the pantheistic God who is simply identified with the world as it is — an identification sometimes without qualification but more frequently with certain reservations that are thought to safeguard moral distinctions.

The thought of Deism and Intelligent Design is rejected as is the related «God - of - the - gaps» approach, which is rightly described as dangerous because it makes itself very vulnerable to further scientific discovery closing those gaps.

Indeed we might say that the adoption of such a panentheistic view is the only way in which genuine theism can be maintained, if by theism (as distinguished from pantheism and deism) we mean that God and the world are not thought to be identical even though they are taken to be intimately and necessarily related one to the other.

Among other advantages, this line concerning God as the mind immediately sustaining and organising each and every aspect of cosmic matter is also important for challenging the Deism of the prominent ex-agnostic Professor Antony Flew.

Here was the basis of Deism in which God was pictured as the great designer, the cosmic engineer, extolled in the familiar hymn of Newton's contemporary, Addison:

Deism's God is not constantly getting blood on his hands as is the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

The story of Jesus and the incarnation suggest that Deism and Theism are now seriously thrown into question as valid postures of belief.

Deism is absolutely as far as I could go.

As the American founder and Deist Thomas Paine made clear in his book on God, religion, Deism, etc., The Age of Reason, The Complete Edition, «The Calvinist, who damns children of a span long to hell to burn forever for the glory of God (and this is called Christianity), and the Universalist who preaches that all shall be saved and none shall be damned (and this also is called Christianity), boasts alike of their holy [revealed] religion and their Christian faith.»

It must as it were be «cranked up» like the universe in deism.

Pastor Jerome's motivation doesn't come across as rooted in Jesus» Sermon on the Mount (Luke 6:32); it just presents more as moral therapeutic deism.

In the twelfth century John of Sacrobosco, flirting with Deism, referred to the universe as machina mundi, the «world - machine,» and this phrase became a commonplace in the writings of Abelard, Hugh of St. Victor, Robert Grosseteste, and others.

The most prominent representatives of English deism were John Toland, author of Christianity not Mysterious (1696), and Matthew Tindal, whose Christianity as Old as Creation (1730) is often called the Bible of deism.

As a moderate Christian highly influenced in his adult life by Deism, I think Madison could step back and see how silly these fundamentalists were towards each other.

This interpersonal model was present in biblical writings, especially in the image of God as Father, but was recovered in recent centuries, partly in response to the impersonal character of God's relation to the world in Deism.

But the mechanistic view of nature in deism can itself be challenged, as we will see, from the standpoint of post-Newtonian science.

The converse of the theory conveniently provided the Tractarians with a summary explanation for the damage done to the English church at the Reformation, just as Butler had found himself a moralistic explanation for the popularity of early 18th century Deism.

I suppose that with some stretching I could see how Lewis could be misunderstood as talking about deism.

Deism spread to the English colonies in North America and had exponents in such influential figures as Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson.

It is a compound made up chiefly of Manism with but little Deism, and is as near to Atheism as twilight is to darkness.

It is something closer to pantheism, panspychism or panexperientialism... and probably closer to atheism than deism and was seen at the time as something quite different.

From a Christian view, pantheism is worthless or worse as an antidote to Deism.

The paranoid style is steeped in agnosticism or a wary deism, whereas King's novels don't deal just in devils but in a personal, active Almighty as well.

I was simply noting that some of the key framers including the first five presidents grew up as Christians and became more Deistic later in life, and that one of the characteristics of Deism in that time was not recognizing the divinity of Christ, even if one followed Christ's teachings.

Hinduism and Islam were too remote to pose a threat, and Jews they simply disregarded, but Roman Catholicism (disparaged as the «Mystery Babylon»), as well as Unitarianism (which denied the divinity of Jesus), deism (which rejected Scripture), and other divergent interpretations of Protestant faith seemed to Evangelicals a perpetual challenge.

God is not the all, as in pantheism, and God is not separate from the world, as in deism.