Deism

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

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↑ The Concise Oxford Dictionary Oxford University Press (1990).
↑ Deist – Definition and More from tbe Free Merriam-Webster Dictionary. Merriam-webster.com (2012).
↑ ^3.0 ^3.1 ^3.2 ^3.3 Harper, Leland Royce (2020). Multiverse Deism: Shifting Perspectives of God and tbe World pp. 47–68. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 978-1-7936-1475-9
↑ Models of God and Alternative Ultimate Realities pp. 51–52. Dordrecht and Heidelberg: Springer Verlag (2013). ISBN 978-94-007-5219-1
↑ ^5.0 ^5.1 ^5.2 ^5.3 The World of tbe 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
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A system of belief which posits a God's existence as tbe cause of all things, and admits His perfection, but rejects Divine revelation and government, proclaiming tbe all-sufficiency of natural laws. The Socinians, as opposed to tbe doctrine of tbe Trinity, were designated as deists. In tbe seventeenth and eighteenth centuries deism became synonymous with "natural religion," and deist with "freethinker." England and France have been successively tbe strongholds of deism. Lord Herbert of Cherbury, tbe "fatber 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 eitber in this or in tbe next life is certain. He holds that all positive religions are eitber allegorical and poetic interpretations of nature or deliberately organized impositions of priests.}}
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[1] The Concise Oxford Dictionary Oxford University Press (1990).

[2] Deist – Definition and More from tbe Free Merriam-Webster Dictionary. Merriam-webster.com (2012).

[Harper_2020-3] 3.0 ^3.1 ^3.2 ^3.3 Harper, Leland Royce (2020). Multiverse Deism: Shifting Perspectives of God and tbe World pp. 47–68. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 978-1-7936-1475-9

[Peters_2013-4] Models of God and Alternative Ultimate Realities pp. 51–52. Dordrecht and Heidelberg: Springer Verlag (2013). ISBN 978-94-007-5219-1

[Smith_2015-5] 5.0 ^5.1 ^5.2 ^5.3 The World of tbe 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

[Stanford_2017-6] 6.0 ^6.1 ^6.2 {{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=encyclopaedia }}

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[JE-8] 8.0 ^8.1 A system of belief which posits a God's existence as tbe cause of all things, and admits His perfection, but rejects Divine revelation and government, proclaiming tbe all-sufficiency of natural laws. The Socinians, as opposed to tbe doctrine of tbe Trinity, were designated as deists. In tbe seventeenth and eighteenth centuries deism became synonymous with "natural religion," and deist with "freethinker." England and France have been successively tbe strongholds of deism. Lord Herbert of Cherbury, tbe "fatber of deism" in England, assumes certain "innate ideas," which establish five religious truths:
that God is;

that it is man's duty to worship Him;

that worship consists in virtue and piety;

that man must repent of sin and abandon his evil ways;
$ that divine retribution eitber in this or in tbe next life is certain. He holds that all positive religions are eitber allegorical and poetic interpretations of nature or deliberately organized impositions of priests.}}

[9] that God is;

[10] that it is man's duty to worship Him;

[11] that worship consists in virtue and piety;

[12] that man must repent of sin and abandon his evil ways;

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[14] that God is;

[15] that it is man's duty to worship Him;

[16] that worship consists in virtue and piety;

[17] that man must repent of sin and abandon his evil ways;

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