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Against the Faith: Essays on Deists, Skeptics, and Atheists

Book by Jim Herrick; Prometheus Books, 1985

Subjects:

Rationalism--History, Rationalists

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

An enlightening history of deism, skepticism, and atheism from the 18th to 20th centuries.
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Jonathan Edwards Confronts the Gods: Christian Theology, Enlightenment Religion, and Non-Christian Faiths

Book by Gerald R. McDermott; Oxford University Press, 2000

Subjects:

Apologetics--United States--History--18th Century, Christianity And Other Religions--History--18th Century, Deism--History--18th Century, Edwards, Jonathan--1703-1758--Contributions In Relations Of Christianity And Other Religions, Edwards, Jonathan--1703-1758--Contributions In Theology Of Revelation, Revelation--History Of Doctrines--18th Century

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

This is a study of how American theologian Jonathan Edwards (1703-58) battled deist arguments about revelation and God's fairness to non-Christians. Author Gerald McDermott argues that Edwards was preparing before his death a sophisticated theological response to Enlightenment religion that was ...
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This is a study of how American theologian Jonathan Edwards (1703-58) battled deist arguments about revelation and God's fairness to non-Christians. Author Gerald McDermott argues that Edwards was preparing before his death a sophisticated theological response to Enlightenment religion that was unparalleled in the eighteenth century and surprisingly generous toward non-Christian traditions.
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Religious Liberalism in Eighteenth-Century England

Book by Roland N. Stromberg; Oxford University Press, 1954

Subjects:

Liberalism (Religion), Religious Thought--England

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...these men may be traced to the English deists. Unitarianism flowered as an important...L. Torrey, Voltaire and the English Deists, passim . 3 Ernst Cassirer...chiefly, the debate about the Trinity. Deists only poured in through a breach already...
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The Enlightenment and Religion: The Myths of Modernity

Book by S. J. Barnett; Manchester University Press, 2003

Subjects:

Church History--18th Century, Deism, Enlightenment

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

...myth 81 Post-Restoration context 81 Deists and Dissent confused 87 John Toland...evidence for the exist- ence of individual deists indicates the existence of relatively...the writings of the philosophes, the deists and their supporters, which have already...
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Ideas of Revelation: An Historical Study, A. D. 1700 to A. D. 1860

Book by H. D. McDonald; Macmillan, 1959

Subjects:

Revelation--History Of Doctrines

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...the problem of divine revelation. The Deists of the early eighteenth century refused...It was, therefore, the denials of the Deists which raised the issue. Books on evidences...this time, but it is to the rise of the Deists that we owe nearly the whole of our evidence...

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The Radical Rhetoric of the English Deists: The Discourse of Skepticism, 1680-1750

Journal article by Melvyn New; Theological Studies, Vol. 60, 1999

Subjects:

Books--Reviews, The Radical Rhetoric of the English Deists: The Discourse of Skepticism, 1680-1750 (Book)--Reviews

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

THE RADICAL RHETORIC OF THE ENGLISH DEISTS: THE DISCOURSE OF SKEPTICISM, 1680-1750...THE RADICAL RHETORIC OF THE ENGLISH DEISTS: THE DISCOURSE OF SKEPTICISM, 1680-1750...18th-century deistic arguments in this way: "The Deists propagated their corrosive approach to...
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Echoes of Paine: Tracing the Age of Reason through the Writings of Emerson

Journal article by Joe Webb; ATQ (The American Transcendental Quarterly), Vol. 20, 2006

Subjects:

Emerson, Ralph Waldo--Criticism and interpretation, Emerson, Ralph Waldo--Works, Paine, Thomas--Influence, Paine, Thomas--Works, Religion--Portrayals, The Age of Reason (Theological work)--Influence

Collections: Religious Studies, Literature, Entire Library

...Thomas Paine, particularly the scientific deists and their seminal text--Paines The Age...between the work of Emerson and that of the deists, we need to examine the religious movement...commitment to living virtuously while on Earth. Deists sought to strip Christianity of its necessary...
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"A Most Mild and Equitable Establishment of Religion": John Adams and the Massachusetts Experiment

Journal article by John Witte Jr.; Journal of Church and State, Vol. 41, 1999

Subjects:

Adams, John (1735-1826), Church & state, Constitutions, Freedom of religion, History, Presidents

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

...Horse Protestants and House Protestants, Deists and Atheists and Protestants qui ne croyent...Species of these Christians would persecute Deists, as much as either Sect would persecute...unchecked and unballanced Power. Nay, the Deists would persecute Christians, and Atheists...
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"Jerusalem Is Scattered Abroad": Blake's Ottoman Geographies

Journal article by Talissa J. Ford; Studies in Romanticism, Vol. 47, 2008

Subjects:

Blake, William (British poet)--Criticism and interpretation, Blake, William (British poet)--Works, Poets--Criticism and interpretation, Poets--Works

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Public, the Christians, the Jews, and the Deists. The divided audience of Jerusalem mirrors...addresses to the Christians, Jews, and Deists, the absence of an address to those who...Public, the Christians, the Jews, and the Deists should surprise us. We know that for Blake...
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Rosemarie Deist, Gender and Power: Counsellors and Their Masters in Antiquity and Medieval Courtly Romance

Journal article by Bettina Bildhauer; Medium Aevum, Vol. 73, 2004

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, Gender and Power: Counsellors and their Masters in Antiquity and Medieval Courtly Romance (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...paid to their ancient influences and their German variations. Deists prime interest is the character constellations in which these...varied this type, with Didos sister Anna in the Aeneid being Deists main example. The bulk of the book deals with female counsellors...

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The Deist Minimum

Magazine article by Avery Cardinal Dulles; First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life, January 2005

Subjects:

Christianity--History, Christianity--Personal narratives, Jefferson, Thomas--Religious aspects, Trust in God--Personal narratives

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...deism, Newton differed from the strict deists insofar as he invoked God as a special...Both Toland and Tindal were Christian deists; they accepted revelation but maintained...identified. Three have been characterized as deists: Benjamin Franklin of Pennsylvania, Thomas...
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God and the Philosophers

Magazine article by Paul Edwards; Free Inquiry, Vol. 18, Summer 1998

Subjects:

Beginning--Study and teaching, God--Study and teaching, Philosophers, Ancient--Philosophy, Religion--Philosophy

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Foremost among the critics were Spinoza, the deists, Hume, and Kant. Spinoza is usually classified...as distinct from natural religion. The deists did not deny a creator of the universe...influential of the eighteenth-century deists, tried to show the absurdity of any cosmic...
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What Do We Mean by Faith in Jesus Christ?

Magazine article by B.A. Gerrish; The Christian Century, Vol. 116, October 6, 1999

Subjects:

Jesus Christ--Divinity, Monotheism--Analysis, Salvation--Religious aspects, Theology--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...of the Tempter became for the English Deists, who followed him, a sustained assault...of the Reformation era. But the English Deists reversed the priorities: they incorporated...general understanding of religion. The Deists were not all of one mind. But we find...
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Faith and the Founding

Magazine article; First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life, August 2003

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...of the Founding" (April). Mr. Novak rightly recognizes that the writings of some of the early American republics most famous deists actually "owe their derivation to a Jewish and Christian worldview, and do not spring from any other." However, along with the...
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Guilt and the New Evangelism

Magazine article by Philip J. Secker; First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life, February 2004

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...absence of any experience of sin. We have all become more or less Deists, no longer asking: How can I do what God expects? but How can...done my best and still failed?" If we are all "more or less Deists," as Cardinal Kasper asserts, then this question surely is related...

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Is Politics Christian?

Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, April 16, 2006

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Breakfast Table: Adrian Cristobal REFLECT on this (this Easter): 9/11 and Abu Ghraib shock Christians and Muslims alike. Include deists, agnostics, and even atheists who spouse humanism and the values of civilization. As these events are political, they can be...
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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, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...intellectuals of his time, was a deist, but wrong to say that deists believed in "a God who created the world but then kind of lost...and John Adams and John Quincy Adams were Unitarians. Both deists and theists held that God is not only the creator of the universe...
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Christmas Story

Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, December 25, 2005

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...latter has religious overtones whereas American democracy is nonsectarian. Indeed, most of the founding fathers were either deists a" Jefferson was one a" or agnostics. The principle of separation of church and state, strictly understood, is taken to mean...
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Founding Fathers of Faith

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, January 25, 2005

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...letter writer to this paper even went so far as to say that the Founding Fathers were not men of personal faith but were rather deists and agnostics. This is revisionist history at its worst because it seeks to deny the very foundation without which our form...
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Fence Post

Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), December 14, 2004

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...the years I taught American history, I missed that piece of trivia. If I remember correctly, most of our Founding Fathers were deists who had a healthy skepticism about the role of God in the affairs of men - a far cry from the kind of evangelical zealotry practiced...

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Deists

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

DEISTS de ists, term commonly applied to those thinkers in the 17th and 18th cent. who held that the course of nature sufficiently...used, the tenor of their belief persists. The term freethinkers is almost synonymous. Voltaire and J. J. Rousseau were deists, as were Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and George Washington. See E. R. Pike, Slayers of Superstition (1931...
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Theism

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...from pantheism and deism (see deists ). Unlike pantheists, theists do not...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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Collins, Anthony

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, 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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Clarke, Samuel

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, 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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Bayle, Pierre

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...profound influence on the French and German Enlightenment , especially on the authors of the Encyclopedie and on the English deists . See C. Brush, Montaigne and Bayle (1966) and E. Labrousse, Bayle (1983). ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia...

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