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    Deists
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

    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

    ...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

    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

    ...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

    ...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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