Unwittingly, in trying to combat what he thought was a temporal deism, McCabe may have ended up with a sort of
moral deism.
What you describe is
moral deism, not the belief that you have been restored and made right with God through his loving sacrifice for you.
Not exact matches
This was no genteel
deism satisfied that the churches were a great force for
moral good in society.
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.
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.