Contemporary Deism attempts to integrate classical Deism with modern philosophy and the current state of scientific knowledge. This attempt has produced a wide variety of personal …

Dec 26, 2025 · 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 …

Belief in God based on reason rather than revelation or the teaching of any specific religion is known as deism. The word originated in England in the early 17th century as a rejection of …

Deism (from Latin: deus = God) refers to the eighteenth-century movement in modern Christianity which taught that reason —rather than revelation—should form the basis of religion.

Oct 21, 2023 · Deism presents a unique view of the divine that bridges the gap between traditional religious belief and rational skepticism, proposing that while God exists as the …

Jun 27, 2018 · Deism (Lat. deus, god) is etymologically cognate to theism (Gr. theos, god), both words denoting belief in the existence of a god or gods and, therefore, the antithesis of atheism.

Deism is a philosophical belief that posits the existence of a creator who does not intervene in the universe, emphasizing reason and observation of the natural world as the primary means of …

Deism is the recognition of a universal creative force greater than that demonstrated by mankind, supported by personal observation of laws and designs in nature and the universe, …

In an ideal typology, deism is one of the two conceptual positions against which theism has to be defined as a middle way, the other being either pantheism or occasionalism. In both cases, …

Key Facts/Beliefs of Deism: Belief in a higher power/supreme being. Belief in an afterlife. Rejects revelations as a source of religious evidence. Oriented toward scientific fact and natural …