Sentences with phrase «more deistic»
The key framers became more Deistic — it allowed them to more easily see how ridiculous their fundie constituency was with their infighting, so walla — 1st Amendment to save the day — better for everyone concerned.
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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.
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.
Not exact matches
Instead, he makes something much more like a deistic argument, although in reverse.
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.
Instead, opponents of Darwinism were more interested in fighting a rearguard action to try to hold on to their outmoded deistic natural theology.
Since Thomism offers this more elaborate argument, it has survived the critique of Hume much more successfully than has deistic natural theology.
It is interesting that they are fundamentally reappraisals of the Newtonian - deistic vision more than of evolution as such.
More important to us is the work of H. S. Reimarus (1694 - 1768), a professor of oriental languages at a Gymnasium in Hamburg, who, under the influence of the English Deists, wrote a four - thousand - page manuscript Apologie oder Schutzschrift für die vernünftiger Verehrer Gottes, a defense of the deistic approach to religion, which he refrained from publishing.