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Deism [PDF]

open access: yes, 1998
Historians have been uncertain whether to characterise English Deism as a secularising movement or a particular strand of theology. It is argued that, despite the high degree of theological and biblical learning displayed by writers such as Blount and, in particular, Toland, their main purpose was to undermine the religious claim to authority by both ...
Champion, Justin
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The Haeckelian hijack of Darwinian deism [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Biological Education, 2020
Ernst Haeckel (1834–1919) is most recalled in the history of biology for his Recapitulation Theory and the allegedly fudged illustrations of embryos that he presented in support of that case.
Barend Vlaardingerbroek
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Religious Existentialism as a Countermeasure to Moralistic Therapeutic Deism

open access: yesCommunications - Scientific Letters of the University of Zilina, 2016
Moralistic Therapeutic Deism (MTD) is a new spiritual trend that is increasingly changing the religious landscape of in the Euro-American cultural provenience.
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Deism and Melancholia

2021
Abstract By showing that discussions of deism featured prominently in the printed attacks on Wesley and Whitefield, Chapter 5 offers a fundamental reappraisal of the perceived relationship between early evangelicalism and irreligion, while also illuminating the ways in which anti-Methodism was informed by other theological controversies.
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Deism

2019
Abstract Deism believes in a God who created the world in the beginning but does not intervene in it thereafter. It represents an unstable compromise between traditional theism and scientific determinism.
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Dennett’s deism

International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, 2010
To suggest that Daniel Dennett is a deist is to invite ridicule. Dennett is both an avowed atheist and defender of naturalism in philosophy. Yet if we pay heed to the entirety of Dennett’s claims a curious picture emerges. My suggestion is that Hegel and Marx represent the rival responses to what we might call the modern predicament: what is the nature
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Multiverse Deism

2020
Given recent work in quantum physics suggesting that our world is just one world in a series of many, Leland Royce Harper calls for a shift in our concept of the monotheistic God of Judeo-Christian tradition. In Multiverse Deism: Shifting Perspectives of God and the World, Harper argues that those who wish to maintain that the Judeo-Christian God ...
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Deism

2018
In the popular sense, a deist is someone who believes that God created the world but thereafter has exercised no providential control over what goes on in it. In the proper sense, a deist is someone who affirms a divine creator but denies any divine revelation, holding that human reason alone can give us everything we need to know to live a correct ...
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