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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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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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Prince, Michael B. The Shortest Way with Defoe: Robinson Crusoe, Deism, and the Novel
The Scriblerian and the Kit-Cats, 2023Christopher F. Loar
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Motivated by Hatred: Defoe, Deism, and the Novel
Eighteenth-century life (Print), 2023Kit Kincade
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The Shortest Way with Defoe: “Robinson Crusoe,” Deism, and the Novel
Modern Language Quarterly: A Journal of Literary History, 2022Gary J. Handwerk
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1992
Abstract Butler’s Analogy of Religion of 1736 was intended as a response to deism and so successful was it that it can in many ways be seen as having dealt the mortal blow. As Hume’s attitude well illustrates, Butler’s reputation was quickly established, and the work was to remain a classic text for over a century.
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Abstract Butler’s Analogy of Religion of 1736 was intended as a response to deism and so successful was it that it can in many ways be seen as having dealt the mortal blow. As Hume’s attitude well illustrates, Butler’s reputation was quickly established, and the work was to remain a classic text for over a century.
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1972
The stand made by Byrom and Law is no isolated rearguard action; it arises directly out of the prolonged religious controversy of the early 18th century. Some analysis of this controversy is necessary if we are to make sense of Byrom’s subsequent propaganda for Law’s new way of ideas, and his expression of their latent aesthetic consequences.
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The stand made by Byrom and Law is no isolated rearguard action; it arises directly out of the prolonged religious controversy of the early 18th century. Some analysis of this controversy is necessary if we are to make sense of Byrom’s subsequent propaganda for Law’s new way of ideas, and his expression of their latent aesthetic consequences.
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Jonathan Edwards and Deism: Focus on God as a Communicative Being
ACTS Theological Journal, 2022Hyundong Cho
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Abstract This chapter shows how English Christian evidentialists of the early eighteenth century utilized historically and empirically based arguments to refute the skeptical views of deists who rejected the divine origin of the Bible and denied the historicity of biblical miracles.
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