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Carl Friedrich Gauss Charles Sanders Peirce Dmitri Mendeleev Hermann Weyl Humphry Davy James Watt Jules Verne Ludwig Boltzmann Max Born Max Planck Mikhail Lomonosov Neil Armstrong Thomas Jefferson Thomas Paine Voltaire Wolfgang Pauli This is a partial list of people who have been categorized as Deists, the belief in a deity based on natural religion only, or belief in religious truths ...
Deism (/ ˈ d iː ɪ z əm / DEE-iz-əm [1] [2] or / ˈ d eɪ. ɪ z əm / DAY-iz-əm; derived from the Latin term deus, meaning "god") [3] [4] is the philosophical position and rationalistic 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 ...
The advantage of giving a standard definition of 'Deism' is to distinguish it from Christianity on the one hand and atheism on the other hand. Robert Corfe argues since deism is not organized as a church, and because it teaches self-reliance and to question authority through its intrinsic characteristics, it has little inclination to move toward the status of a highly organized body.
The Age of Reason; Being an Investigation of True and Fabulous Theology is a work by English and American political activist Thomas Paine, arguing for the philosophical position of deism. It follows in the tradition of 18th-century British deism, and challenges institutionalized religion and the legitimacy of the Bible. It was published in ...
The Cult of the Supreme Being (French: Culte de l'Être suprême) [note 1] was a form of theocratic deism established by Maximilien Robespierre during the French Revolution as the intended state religion of France and a replacement for its rival, the Cult of Reason, and of Roman Catholicism.
Deism is a humanist theological position (though encompassing a wide variety of view-points) concerning God's relationship with the natural world which emerged during the scientific revolution of 17th-century Europe and came to exert a powerful influence during the 18th-century Enlightenment.
In 1835, when he was 26 years old, Abraham Lincoln wrote a defense of Paine's deism. [149] A political associate, Samuel Hill, burned the manuscript to save Lincoln's political career. [ 150 ] Historian Roy Basler , the editor of Lincoln's papers, said Paine had a strong influence on Lincoln's style:
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