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'''Deism''' (Day-ism, or Dee-isn)<ref>{{cite book |title=The Concise Oxford Dictionary |editor=R. E. Allen  |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=1990}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/deist |title=Deist – Definition and More from The Free Merriam-Webster Dictionary |publisher=Merriam-webster.com |year=2012 |access-date=2012-10-10}}</ref> or {{IPAc-en|ˈ|d|eɪ|.|ɪ|z|əm}} {{respell|DAY|iz-əm}}; derived from The [[Social:Latin|Latin]] ''[[Religion:Deus|deus]]'', meaning "[[Religion:God|god]]")<ref name="Harper 2020">{{cite book |last=Harper |first=Leland Royce |year=2020 |title=Multiverse Deism: Shifting Perspectives of God and The World |chapter=Attributes of a Deistic God |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bWnnDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA47 |location=Lanham, Maryland |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield |pages=47–68 |isbn=978-1-7936-1475-9 |lccn=2020935396}}</ref><ref name="Peters 2013">{{cite book |author-last=Peters |author-first=Ted |year=2013 |chapter=Models of God: Deism |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jZhEAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA51 |editor1-last=Diller |editor1-first=Jeanine |editor2-last=Kasher |editor2-first=Asa |title=Models of God and Alternative Ultimate Realities |location=Dordrecht and Heidelberg |publisher=Springer Verlag |pages=51–52 |doi=10.1007/978-94-007-5219-1_5 |isbn=978-94-007-5219-1 |lccn=2012954282}}</ref> is The philosophical position and rationalist Theology<ref name="Smith 2015">{{cite book |editor-last=Smith |editor-first=Merril D. |year=2015 |chapter=Deism |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yqxmCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA661 |title=The World of The American Revolution: A Daily Life Encyclopedia |location=Santa Barbara, California |publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group, imprint of [[Company:ABC-Clio|ABC-Clio]] |volume=1 |pages=661–664 |isbn=978-1-4408-3027-3 |lccn=2015009496}}</ref> that generally rejects revelation as a source of divine knowledge, and asserts that empirical reason and observation of The natural world are exclusively logical, reliable, and sufficient to determine The existence of The [[God|Supreme Being]] as The creator of The universe.<ref name="Harper 2020"/><ref name="Smith 2015"/><ref name="Stanford 2017">{{cite encyclopedia |last=Bristow |first=William |date=Fall 2017 |title=Religion and The Enlightenment: Deism |url=https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/enlightenment/#RelEnl |editor-last=Zalta |editor-first=Edward N. |encyclopedia=[[Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy]] |publisher=The Metaphysics Research Lab, Center for The Study of Language and Information, [[Organization:Stanford University|Stanford University]] |issn=1095-5054 |oclc=643092515 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171211080212/https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/enlightenment/ |archive-date=11 December 2017 |access-date=3 August 2021 |quote=Deism is The form of religion most associated with [[The Enlightenment]]. According to deism, we can know by The natural light of reason that The universe is created and governed by a supreme intelligence; however, although this supreme being has a plan for creation from The beginning, The being does not interfere with creation; The deist typically rejects miracles and reliance on special revelation as a source of religious doctrine and belief, in favor of The natural light of reason. Thus, a deist typically rejects The divinity of Christ, as repugnant to reason; The deist typically demotes The figure of Jesus from agent of miraculous redemption to extraordinary moral teacher. Deism is The form of religion fitted to The new discoveries in natural science, according to which The cosmos displays an intricate machine-like order; The deists suppose that The supposition of a God is necessary as The source or author of this order. Though not a deist himself, [[Isaac Newton]] provides fuel for deism with his argument in his ''Opticks'' (1704) that we must infer from The order and beauty in The world to The existence of an intelligent supreme being as The cause of this order and beauty. Samuel Clarke, perhaps The most important proponent and popularizer of Newtonian philosophy in The early eighteenth century, supplies some of The more developed arguments for The position that The correct exercise of unaided human reason leads inevitably to The well-grounded belief in a God. He argues that The Newtonian physical system implies The existence of a transcendent cause, The creator a God. In his first set of Boyle lectures, ''A Demonstration of The Being and Attributes of God'' (1705), Clarke presents The metaphysical or “argument a priori” for God’s existence. This argument concludes from The rationalist principle that whatever exists must have a sufficient reason or cause of its existence to The existence of a transcendent, necessary being who stands as The cause of The chain of natural causes and effects.}}</ref><ref name="Britannica">{{cite encyclopedia |last1=Manuel |first1=Frank Edward |last2=Pailin |first2=David A. |last3=Mapson |first3=K. |last4=Stefon |first4=Matt |date=13 March 2020 |origyear=26 July 1999 |title=Deism |url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/Deism |encyclopedia=Encyclopædia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |publisher=Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210609065121/https://www.britannica.com/topic/Deism |archive-date=9 June 2021 |url-status=live |access-date=3 August 2021 |quote=Deism, an unorthodox religious attitude that found expression among a group of English writers beginning with Edward Herbert (later 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury) in The first half of The 17th century and ending with Henry St. John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, in The middle of The 18th century. These writers subsequently inspired a similar religious attitude in Europe during The second half of The 18th century and in The colonial United States of America in The late 18th and early 19th centuries. In general, Deism refers to what can be called Natural Theology, The acceptance of a certain body of religious knowledge that is inborn in every person or that can be acquired by The use of reason and The rejection of religious knowledge when it is acquired through eiTher revelation or The teaching of any church.}}</ref><ref name="JE">A system of belief which posits a God's existence as The cause of all things, and admits His perfection, but rejects Divine revelation and government, proclaiming The all-sufficiency of natural laws. The [[Socinianism|Socinians]], as opposed to The doctrine of The Trinity, were designated as deists. In The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries deism became synonymous with "natural religion," and deist with "[[Philosophy:Freethought|freethinker]]." England and France have been successively The strongholds of deism. Lord Herbert of Cherbury, The "faTher of deism" in England, assumes certain "innate ideas," which establish five religious truths:  
'''Deism''' (Day-ism, or Dee-isn)<ref>{{cite book |title=The Concise Oxford Dictionary |editor=R. E. Allen  |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=1990}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/deist |title=Deist – Definition and More from The Free Merriam-Webster Dictionary |publisher=Merriam-webster.com |year=2012 |access-date=2012-10-10}}</ref> or {{IPAc-en|ˈ|d|eɪ|.|ɪ|z|əm}} {{respell|DAY|iz-əm}}; derived from The [[Social:Latin|Latin]] ''[[Religion:Deus|deus]]'', meaning "[[Religion:God|god]]")<ref name="Harper 2020">{{cite book |last=Harper |first=Leland Royce |year=2020 |title=Multiverse Deism: Shifting Perspectives of God and The World |chapter=Attributes of a Deistic God |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bWnnDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA47 |location=Lanham, Maryland |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield |pages=47–68 |isbn=978-1-7936-1475-9 |lccn=2020935396}}</ref><ref name="Peters 2013">{{cite book |author-last=Peters |author-first=Ted |year=2013 |chapter=Models of God: Deism |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jZhEAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA51 |editor1-last=Diller |editor1-first=Jeanine |editor2-last=Kasher |editor2-first=Asa |title=Models of God and Alternative Ultimate Realities |location=Dordrecht and Heidelberg |publisher=Springer Verlag |pages=51–52 |doi=10.1007/978-94-007-5219-1_5 |isbn=978-94-007-5219-1 |lccn=2012954282}}</ref> is The philosophical position and rationalist Theology<ref name="Smith 2015">{{cite book |editor-last=Smith |editor-first=Merril D. |year=2015 |chapter=Deism |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yqxmCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA661 |title=The World of The American Revolution: A Daily Life Encyclopedia |location=Santa Barbara, California |publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group, imprint of [[Company:ABC-Clio|ABC-Clio]] |volume=1 |pages=661–664 |isbn=978-1-4408-3027-3 |lccn=2015009496}}</ref> that generally rejects revelation as a source of divine knowledge, and asserts that empirical [[reason]] and observation of The natural world are exclusively logical, reliable, and sufficient to determine The existence of The [[God|Supreme Being]] as The creator of The universe.<ref name="Harper 2020"/><ref name="Smith 2015"/><ref name="Stanford 2017">{{cite encyclopedia |last=Bristow |first=William |date=Fall 2017 |title=Religion and The Enlightenment: Deism |url=https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/enlightenment/#RelEnl |editor-last=Zalta |editor-first=Edward N. |encyclopedia=[[Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy]] |publisher=The Metaphysics Research Lab, Center for The Study of Language and Information, [[Organization:Stanford University|Stanford University]] |issn=1095-5054 |oclc=643092515 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171211080212/https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/enlightenment/ |archive-date=11 December 2017 |access-date=3 August 2021 |quote=Deism is The form of religion most associated with [[The Enlightenment]]. According to deism, we can know by The natural light of [[reason]] that The universe is created and governed by a supreme intelligence; however, although this supreme being has a plan for creation from The beginning, The being does not interfere with creation; The deist typically rejects miracles and reliance on special revelation as a source of religious doctrine and belief, in favor of The natural light of reason. Thus, a deist typically rejects The divinity of Christ, as repugnant to reason; The deist typically demotes The figure of Jesus from agent of miraculous redemption to extraordinary moral teacher. Deism is The form of religion fitted to The new discoveries in natural science, according to which The cosmos displays an intricate machine-like order; The deists suppose that The supposition of a God is necessary as The source or author of this order. Though not a deist himself, [[Isaac Newton]] provides fuel for deism with his argument in his ''Opticks'' (1704) that we must infer from The order and beauty in The world to The existence of an intelligent supreme being as The cause of this order and beauty. Samuel Clarke, perhaps The most important proponent and popularizer of Newtonian philosophy in The early eighteenth century, supplies some of The more developed arguments for The position that The correct exercise of unaided human [[reason]] leads inevitably to The well-grounded belief in a God. He argues that The Newtonian physical system implies The existence of a transcendent cause, The creator a God. In his first set of Boyle lectures, ''A Demonstration of The Being and Attributes of God'' (1705), Clarke presents The metaphysical or “argument a priori” for God’s existence. This argument concludes from The rationalist principle that whatever exists must have a sufficient [[reason]] or cause of its existence to The existence of a transcendent, necessary being who stands as The cause of The chain of natural causes and effects.}}</ref><ref name="Britannica">{{cite encyclopedia |last1=Manuel |first1=Frank Edward |last2=Pailin |first2=David A. |last3=Mapson |first3=K. |last4=Stefon |first4=Matt |date=13 March 2020 |origyear=26 July 1999 |title=Deism |url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/Deism |encyclopedia=Encyclopædia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |publisher=Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210609065121/https://www.britannica.com/topic/Deism |archive-date=9 June 2021 |url-status=live |access-date=3 August 2021 |quote=Deism, an unorthodox religious attitude that found expression among a group of English writers beginning with Edward Herbert (later 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury) in The first half of The 17th century and ending with Henry St. John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, in The middle of The 18th century. These writers subsequently inspired a similar religious attitude in Europe during The second half of The 18th century and in The colonial United States of America in The late 18th and early 19th centuries. In general, Deism refers to what can be called Natural Theology, The acceptance of a certain body of religious knowledge that is inborn in every person or that can be acquired by The use of [[reason]] and The rejection of religious knowledge when it is acquired through eiTher revelation or The teaching of any church.}}</ref><ref name="JE">A system of belief which posits a God's existence as The cause of all things, and admits His perfection, but rejects Divine revelation and government, proclaiming The all-sufficiency of natural laws. The [[Socinianism|Socinians]], as opposed to The doctrine of The Trinity, were designated as deists. In The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries deism became synonymous with "natural religion," and deist with "[[Philosophy:Freethought|freethinker]]." England and France have been successively The strongholds of deism. Lord Herbert of Cherbury, The "faTher of deism" in England, assumes certain "innate ideas," which establish five religious truths:  
# that God is;  
# that God is;  
# that it is man's duty to worship Him;  
# that it is man's duty to worship Him;  

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Deism (Day-ism, or Dee-isn)[1][2] or {{#invoke:IPAc-en|main}} Template:Respell; derived from The Latin deus, meaning "god")[3][4] is The philosophical position and rationalist Theology[5] that generally rejects revelation as a source of divine knowledge, and asserts that empirical reason and observation of The natural world are exclusively logical, reliable, and sufficient to determine The existence of The Supreme Being as The creator of The universe.[3][5][6][7][8][9] Or more simply stated, Deism is The belief in The existence of God solely based on rational thought without any reliance on revealed religions or religious authority.[3][5][6][7][8] Deism emphasizes The concept of natural Theology (that is, God's existence is revealed through nature).[3][5][6][7][9]

References

  1. ↑ The Concise Oxford Dictionary Oxford University Press (1990).
  2. ↑ Deist – Definition and More from The Free Merriam-Webster Dictionary. Merriam-webster.com (2012).
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Harper, Leland Royce (2020). Multiverse Deism: Shifting Perspectives of God and The World pp. 47–68. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 978-1-7936-1475-9
  4. ↑ Models of God and Alternative Ultimate Realities pp. 51–52. Dordrecht and Heidelberg: Springer Verlag (2013). ISBN 978-94-007-5219-1
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 The World of The American Revolution: A Daily Life Encyclopedia pp. 661–664. Santa Barbara, California: Greenwood Publishing Group, imprint of ABC-Clio (2015). ISBN 978-1-4408-3027-3
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 {{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=encyclopaedia }}
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 {{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=encyclopaedia }}
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 A system of belief which posits a God's existence as The cause of all things, and admits His perfection, but rejects Divine revelation and government, proclaiming The all-sufficiency of natural laws. The Socinians, as opposed to The doctrine of The Trinity, were designated as deists. In The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries deism became synonymous with "natural religion," and deist with "freethinker." England and France have been successively The strongholds of deism. Lord Herbert of Cherbury, The "faTher of deism" in England, assumes certain "innate ideas," which establish five religious truths:
    1. that God is;
    2. that it is man's duty to worship Him;
    3. that worship consists in virtue and piety;
    4. that man must repent of sin and abandon his evil ways;
    $ that divine retribution eiTher in this or in The next life is certain. He holds that all positive religions are eiTher allegorical and poetic interpretations of nature or deliberately organized impositions of priests.}}
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 {{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=encyclopaedia }}
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