Deist

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".

Deist – God is an engineer or watchmaker Characteristics of Spiritual Presences Pantheist – god is everywhere in nature.

So does God, the Trinity, create and set things running, then stand back and observe as with the deist 'Blind Watchmaker' analogy used by Dawkins?

Not to God, which might have made a deist of Hitler, but to Jesus, which explicitly labels him a Christian.

Although he was a great reader and admirer of Spinoza, Leibniz, being a confirmed deist, rejected emphatically Spinoza's pantheism: God and nature, for Leibniz, were not simply two different "labels" for the same "thing".

Constructional elements of deist thought included: * God exists and created the universe.

Contemporary deist opinions on prayer Many classical deists were critical of some types of prayer.

Critical elements of deist thought included: * Rejection of religions that are based on books that claim to contain the revealed word of God.

Currently the WUD offers two online Deist publications, THINKonline! and Deistic Thought & Action!

However, he never spoke about any particular Deist beliefs he may of have had.

It happened that they wrought an effect on me quite contrary to what was intended by them; for the arguments of the Deists, which were quoted to be refuted, appeared to me much stronger than the refutations; in short, I soon became a thorough Deist.

It split from Deism.com to promote more traditional and historical Deist beliefs and history.

Locke himself was not a deist.

Many deist freethinkers held that belief in an afterlife with reward and punishment was a necessity of reason and good morals.

On his deathbed, the King of Fynn tasks the party to seek the help of the seemingly extinct dragoons of Deist.

Other notable Founding Fathers may have been more directly deist.

Other students found Deist books in the library.

Randall, 1994, p. 203; Influenced by Deist authors during his college years Jefferson abandoned "orthodox" Christianity after his review of New Testament teachings.

The aim of the book was to educate those who believed similarly, but did not know the words Deism and Deist, that there is a name for their belief.

The author is not an atheist on one page and a deist on another.