Deism | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-14

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Deism


00:01:40 1 Overview
00:05:01 2 Features
00:09:56 2.1 Concepts of "reason"
00:11:26 2.2 Arguments for the existence of a god
00:12:13 2.3 History of religion and the deist mission
00:14:58 2.4 Freedom and necessity
00:16:06 2.5 Immortality of the soul
00:17:15 2.6 Terminology
00:17:53 3 Classical deism
00:18:02 3.1 Historical background
00:19:07 3.1.1 Discovery of diversity
00:21:19 3.1.2 Religious conflict in Europe
00:22:11 3.1.3 Advances in scientific knowledge
00:23:28 3.2 Precursors
00:29:27 3.3 Deism in Britain
00:29:36 3.3.1 John Locke
00:30:39 3.3.2 Flowering of classical deism, 1690–1740
00:32:33 3.3.3 Matthew Tindal
00:33:27 3.3.4 David Hume
00:36:06 3.4 Deism in continental Europe
00:37:19 3.5 Deism in the United States
00:41:05 3.6 Decline and rebirth of deism
00:44:50 4 Contemporary deism
00:47:32 4.1 Modern deistic organizations and websites
00:50:08 4.2 Subcategories of contemporary deism
00:51:11 4.2.1 Pandeism
00:53:36 4.3 Contemporary deist opinions on prayer
00:54:54 4.4 Recent discussion of the role of deism



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Deism ( DEE-iz-əm  or  DAY-iz-əm; derived from Latin "deus" meaning "god") is a philosophical belief that posits that God exists as an uncaused First Cause ultimately responsible for the creation of the universe, but does not interfere directly with the created world.  Equivalently, deism can also be defined as the view which posits God's existence as the cause of all things, and admits its perfection (and usually the existence of natural law and Providence) but rejects divine revelation or direct intervention of God in the universe by miracles.  It also rejects revelation as a source of religious knowledge and asserts that reason and observation of the natural world are sufficient to determine the existence of a single creator or absolute principle of the universe.Deism gained prominence among intellectuals during the Age of Enlightenment, especially in Britain, France, Germany, and the United States. Typically, these had been raised as Christians and believed in one God, but they had become disenchanted with organized religion and orthodox teachings such as the Trinity, Biblical inerrancy, and the supernatural interpretation of events, such as miracles. Included in those influenced by its ideas were leaders of the American and French Revolutions.Deism is considered to exist in the classical and modern forms, where the classical view takes what is called a "cold" approach by asserting the non-intervention of a deity in the natural behavior of the created universe, while the modern deist formulation can be either "warm" (citing an involved deity) or "cold" (citing an uninvolved deity). These lead to many subdivisions of modern deism, which serves as an overall category of belief.