deistic
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Alt. of Deistical
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He suggests that perhaps Hume's position is best characterised by the term "irreligion",sfn while philosopher David O'Connor argues that Hume's final position was "weakly deistic ".
Foner, 256. Almost immediately after this deistic upsurge, the Second Great Awakening began.
In Annet, Paine is said to have a direct "forerunner" in deistic argumentation, advocacy of "freedom of expression and religious inquiry" and emphasis on "social reforms."
Note that the terms constructive and critical are used to refer to aspects of deistic thought, not sects or subtypes of deism it would be incorrect to classify any particular deist author as "a constructive deist" or "a critical deist".
In fact, many lodges praised the Grand Architect, the masonic terminology for the deistic divine being who created a scientifically ordered universe.
London: Thomas Nelson and Son Ltd., 1948–1957, 4:77 Newton's science, therefore, could not on purely scientific grounds justify its conclusions, and the mechanical, deistic model of the universe could not be rationally justified.