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Books on: deists

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Journal Articles on: deists

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Magazine Articles on: deists

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Newspaper Articles on: deists

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    Founder's Faith; Authors Rebut Deist Label for Washington
    Newspaper article; The Washington Times, March 28, 2006
    Subjects: 
    Novak, Michael
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...historians to dismiss him as a deist, Ms. Novak said, but the verbs...protection and favor." If he were a deist, Washington would not ask God...some people were considered both deists and Christians. They were deist in the sense that they used an...
     
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    Rethink the Way We Build Roads
    Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), February 5, 2011
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...Fathers were "Unitarians and deists and not Christians." Unitarians and deists in 1700s America were Christians...times that were considered deist. Jefferson for certain believed...the Founding Fathers all were deists. Furthermore, it is not only...
     
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    Change the State's Retirement Plan
    Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), February 18, 2011
    Subjects: 
    Defined contribution plans--Political aspects, Retirement benefits--Political aspects
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...Fence Post, Feb. 5) titled "Founding Fathers werent mostly deists." Mr. Knudsen is sadly mistaken in some of this arguments...regarding the Founding Fathers, the early presidents were generally deists or Unitarians, believing in some form of impersonal God but...
     
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    Founding Fathers Believed That God Played an Active Role in History
    Newspaper article; The Washington Times, July 13, 1997
    Subjects: 
    Jefferson, Thomas
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...Jefferson, like many intellectuals of his time, was a deist, but wrong to say that deists believed in "a God who created the world but then...Adams and John Quincy Adams were Unitarians. Both deists and theists held that God is not only the creator...
     
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    Letters in the Editor's Mailbag
    Newspaper article; The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR), July 9, 2004
    Subjects: 
    Bush, George W.
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...believe history supports the claim that all of the Founding Fathers were Christians; some important ones were deists. But what profound deists they were. They most certainly did not intend making their country into an atheist state. Why do the judges...
     

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Encyclopedia Articles on: deists

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    Deists
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    DEISTS de ists, term commonly applied to those thinkers in the 17th and 18th cent...term freethinkers is almost synonymous. Voltaire and J. J. Rousseau were deists, as were Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and George Washington. See...
     
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    Theism
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...distinguished from pantheism and deism (see deists ). Unlike pantheists, theists do...be identical to the universe. Like deists, they believe that God created the universe and transcends it; unlike the deists, they hold that God involves himself...
     
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    Clarke, Samuel
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...SAMUEL 1675 1729, English philosopher and divine. His chief interest was rational theology, and, although a critic of the deists, he was in sympathy with some of their ideas. He supported the theories of Newton and argued with Leibniz in defense of the...
     
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    Collins, Anthony
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    COLLINS, ANTHONY 1676 1729, English theologian; a friend of John Locke. He set forth the position of the deists and defended the cause of rational theology. His Discourse of Free Thinking (1713) was answered by many clergymen and was satirized...
     
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    Rationalism
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...was a fundamental concern of scholasticism . In the 18th cent. rationalism produced a religion of its own called deism (see deists ). See E. Heimann, Reason and Faith in Modern Society (1961); T. F. Torrance, God and Rationality (1971); R. L...
     

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