Sentences with word «deistic»

As the title of this column series implies, strategy gamers love to pretend that they are gods, and not distant Deistic gods simply setting things in motion.

This outlook has represented a prominent strand in theology from the Hellenistic influence apparent in Hebrews 11:6 («Whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him»), through the medieval Anselmic and Thomistic arguments for the existence of God, reaching a climax in the 18th century deistic arguments for a Great Designer evidenced by the intricacy and harmony of the universe.

In the latter part of this period, education was likely to make students more deistic in their thinking.

So serious did matters become that the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church issued a public warning in 1798 that unless America turned from deistic infidelity, God would assuredly visit his wrath upon it.

It usually starts with some generic Deistic notion of God and then quickly narrows to one of the multitudes of theistic belief systems such as one particular strain of Christianity.

You're coming from the scientific philosophy of mechanistic determinism that states that divine action is either subjective (the «God did it» explanation of deistic natural theology) or objective (interventionist God of the conservative theologies).

It is interesting that they are fundamentally reappraisals of the Newtonian - deistic vision more than of evolution as such.

In addition, this is a very deistic argument, but you are a believer in Christianity.

The only god that could possibly exist is some sort of deistic creator god, and I'm quite sure such a god doesn't listen to prayers and couldn't care less what a bunch of bugs like us are praying for.

The freedom of man, which was jeopardized in both the monarchial and deistic models, is here strongly defended.

Some of our key founders were pretty Deistic.

Deistic literature was printed and spread up and down the coast, while men and women united in a common faith in reason or common sense.

As for a unknown deistic higher power?

Though the most Deistic of the Founding Fathers, even Jefferson was not a full - fledged Deist if we accept that philosophy as having had two fundamental tenets: a rejection of biblical revelation and a conviction that God, having created the laws of the universe, had receded from day - to - day control....

As a consequence we have often wavered between one and the other, and the people have been left either with unwarranted expectations of divine intervention in their behalf or with a remote and essentially deistic God to whom — or perhaps more accurately, to which — it has seemed futile to turn in time of need.

Today the secret, or not - so - secret, religion of a majority of continental Europeans is vaguely neo-pagan: it consists equally of gnostic, pantheistic, and deistic elements.

Though many early Americans surely heard patriotic and public references to «God» as a reference to the Father, Son and Holy Spirit of classical Christianity, it is clear that Founding Fathers such as Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin intended the word less specifically, regarding «God» as a more removed, impersonal and deistic entity.

Even though we have no evidence there could be a first cause deistic creator god but it can't be the biblical one due to logical inconsistancies.

Early in this awakening there appeared the new traditionalist movement, led by Timothy Dwight, who preached return to the old order, aroused the populace against the dangers of foreigners, attacked deistic heresies and rebellion among the youth, and urged maintaining the old establishment of religion.

Jefferson's «self - evident» truths were deistic ones: The pursuit of happiness is understood to be what God intended for humans from the creation, in contrast to traditional Christianity's understanding of the pre-eminent importance of glorifying God.

A purely Puritanical Declaration would have affirmed theocratic trampling on the rights of conscience, a purely Deistic or Lockean Declaration would have alienated Christian Americans.

Today's theological truth is that is that sophisticated Americans tend to oscillate incoherently between Deistic personalism — or feverish concern for one's own «autonomy» — and completely impersonal pantheism.

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.

Thomas Paine was very Deistic.

The fourth model, which I wish to discuss at greater length, does allow us to speak of God's relation to nature, yet without the coercive or mechanical implications of the monarchial and deistic models.

Since Thomism offers this more elaborate argument, it has survived the critique of Hume much more successfully than has deistic natural theology.

Western Christianity has become more deistic than theistic and Scriptures that reveal a metaphysics of Divine Transcendence and a deterministic legal agenda rather than a love story of God's relationship with the people S / He has chosen to prepare to become sacraments of Divine Love in the world.

Most of my references are in terms of a deistic or pantheistic god.

If God is acknowledged it is only in a Deistic, radically distant sense.

I think that it's reasonable to believe in some sort of deistic «creative force.»

How do you jump from a deistic argument to believing in a specific religion?

In almost every regard except their theistic conclusions (or deistic, I would maintain), advocates of Intelligent Design share the metaphysical presuppositions of their opponents, and so it is no wonder that I am greeted with dismay and charges of «mockery,» «ridicule,» and closet treason to the cause of Christian apologetics for pointing out the glaring flaws of their argument.

Colin Looks like even your mentor is not afraid to acknowledge the possibility of God; «when Dawkins debated Lennox (Oxford University Museum October 2008) Dawkins said that, although he would not accept it, a reasonably respectable case could be made for «a deistic god»...»

The Deistic side of John Adams comes out strong in these paragraphs A Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America (1787 - 1788)