This book is no longer available to purchase from Cambridge Core Hudson reinterprets the works of an important group of writers known as 'the English deists' including: Charles Blount (1654-1693), ...
This book is no longer available to purchase from Cambridge Core The writers known as the English deists were not simply religious controversialists, but agents of reform who contributed to the ...
Some of the people who speak and think this way can be described as Moralistic Therapeutic Deists. That's the term coined by sociologist Christian Smith to describe the vague spirituality and ...
Many supporters of the Revolution were deists. With leadership from Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson (and arguably John Adams and George Washington), they maintained a dominant presence in ...
Many scholars say the Revolution was merely the product of Enlightenment deists—rationalists who believed God, like a watchmaker, set the universe running and let people manage it by reason.
A Republican Senator was subjected to ridicule and scorn at the hands of his own constituents after he declared Monday night that he was advocating openly for "christian nationalism." U.S. Sen.
Washington’s reputation, like that of such Deists as Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Paine and Benjamin Franklin, is one of coolness and moderation in religion. But through his time swept a hot blast ...
Then look at his friends! Are they not "deists, atheists, and infidels"? Did not General Dearborn one of his active supporters, while traveling to Washington in a public stage, say, that "so long ...