Word: deism
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Lecture. Liberal Thought in America. II. Universalism and Deism. Rev. W. W. Fenn. Divinity Chapel...
Lecture. Liberal Thought in America. II. Universalism and Deism. Rev. W. W. Fenn. Divinity Chapel...
...Wednesday, March 31. Universalism and Deism...
...religion of my country is a simple, natural religion. Discarding sectarian name, we call it Theism, always keeping clear the distinction between that and Deism. Deism is abstract, logical, negative in its nature; theism embodies the expressions of the devout and the revelations of God. Deism may believe in God, but that God is washed out by the ideas of the man himself. Deism and theism alike must embody themselves in creeds, rites and observances, which have unfortunately been allowed to obscure the grand issues of religion...
...Cynics played an important part at this time. Their bravery and constancy won for them the respect of all. They resemble in some respects the modern anarchists except in relation to God. Their pure deism rebuked the polytheism of the age, and their asceticism did much towards shaping the hermit life and the monastic system of later times...