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- Deism and Reason - Surveys and espouses traditional Deism. E-text resources and Deist quotations.
- Deism Advocated in the Bible - Series of articles finds strains of Deism in some books of the Bible.
- Deism, English - Explores the Deism of Hobbes, Locke, Tindal, and the influence of Hume.
- Deism, French - Brief historical survey of the development of Deism in France, as espoused by Voltaire, Diderot, and Rousseau.
- The Origins of Deism - Lecture by Terry Matthews traces the course and development of Deism.
- Deism and the Enlightenment - Class lecture notes and recommended readings.
- Positive Deism - Promotes Deism and its beliefs with articles, forum, and chat.
- Rise and Fall of English Deism - Essay by Cky J. Carrigan provides historical survey, discusses proponents and main tenets, and analyzes its demise.
- Yahoo! Groups: Deism - Beliefs and tenets, denial of revealed religions.
- ReligiousTolerance.org: Deism - Definition, history, quotes, and bibliography.
Wikipedia Articles
- Deism - Deism is a religious philosophy and movement that derives the existence and nature of God from reason and personal experience, in contrast to theism (with religions like Judaism, Christianity and Islam) which relies on revelation in sacred scriptures or the testimony of other people. Deism became prominent in Great Britain, France, and the United States in the 17th and 18th centuries and continues to this day in the form of Classical Deism and Modern Deism.
- Ceremonial deism - Ceremonial deism is a legal term used in the United States for nominally religious statements and practices deemed to be merely ritual and non-religious through long customary usage. Proposed examples of ceremonial deism include the reference to God introduced into the Pledge of Allegiance in 1954, and the phrase "In God We Trust" added to U.
- Polydeism - Polydeism (from Greek πολύς ( 'poly' ), meaning 'many', and Latin deus meaning God) is a polytheistic form of Deism encompassing the belief that the universe was the collective creation of multiple Gods, each of whom created a piece of the universe and then ceased to interact with the universe. This concept addresses an apparent contradiction in Deism - that a monotheistic God created the universe, but now expresses no apparent interest in it - by supposing that if the universe is the construct of many gods, none of them would have an interest in the universe as a whole.
- Pandeism - Pandeism (Greek πάν, 'pan' = 'all' and Latin deus = God, in the sense of deism), is a term used at various times to describe religious beliefs. Since at least as early as 1859, it has delineated syncretist concepts incorporating or mixing elements of pantheism (that God is identical to the universe) and deism (that the creator-god who designed the universe no longer exists in a status where he can be reached, and can instead be confirmed only by reason).
- Clockmaker hypothesis - The Clockmaker hypothesis is a tenet of deism that states that some higher power, such as God, created the universe (for example, in the Big Bang) and then stepped aside after the moment of creation. According to this hypothesis, since the creation of the universe, God has not interfered with its inner workings in any manner ...