Sentences with phrase «deists such»

The mild deists such as Franklin and Jefferson were in agreement with the Christian revivalists on many things.

As a result of the combined efforts of the dissenting Churches and the mild deists such as Jefferson and Madison, full religious liberty was established by law in Virginia in 1785.

The mild deists such as Jefferson were also shocked.

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a deist does not believe in supernatural events such as miracles, the inerrancy of scriptures, or the Trinity.

Hmmm... Such as the Deists that helped found this country?

From the deists of the Enlightenment to modern - day writers such as Robert Funk, the movement has always had anticlerical and antiorthodox tendencies.

From the deists of the Enlightenment to modern - day writers such as Robert Funk, the movement has always had....

Toss in the occasional deist and follower of spiritual / philosophical traditions that don't lean heavily on the supernatural such as certain forms of buddhism, pretty much all confucianism, etc, and we're really cooking.

I sometimes have wondered if the more Deist or Spinoza god concept could be followed to the idea that a creative force jump - started this universe only to move on to a new project, maybe never to return, but I like the notion that such a creative force might still be around but perhaps, building on your notion, re-inventing itself and perhaps expanding the internal complexity of this universe as well as time goes on.

Such a revolutionary shift of perspective, typical of the Deists, nurtured a fascinating body of subversive literature, which actually began even before the heyday of Deism.

I do know some were Deist (such as Ben) Many others though were Masons but definitely didn't take it that seriously compared to there belief in Christ.

For still others such Germanic circumlocution is impossible to understand, let alone embrace; they will regard the resurrection in a rationalistic, relatively «old - fashioned» deist - liberal manner as a prescientific way of expressing the timeless content of Jesus» life and ministry — his preaching about the love of God and the need for human fellowship.

The Deists characteristically claimed Jesus as an example of rational humanity and understood the gospels as historical, availing themselves of all kinds of rationalistic explanations of the various phenomena, such as apparent miracle, in them.