deism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
Etymology: From French déisme, from Latin deus (“god, deity”) + -ism.
Base: deus
Affixes: -ism
Inflected forms:
form: deisms
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Deism
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A philosophical belief in the existence of a god (or goddess) knowable through human reason; especially, a belief in a creator god unaccompanied by any belief in supernatural phenomena or specific religious doctrines.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: If my supposition be true, then the consequence which I have assumed in my Poem may be also true; namely, that Deism, or the principles of natural worship, are only the faint remnants or dying flames of reveal'd religion in the posterity of Noah.
As the Epicureans had a Deism without a God, so the Unitarians have a Christianity without a Christ, and a Jesus but no Saviour.
In place of the idea which runs through the Tanakh and New Testament of a God intimately involved with his creation and providentially repeatedly intervening in it, there was the concept of a God who had certainly created the world and set up its laws in structures understandable by human reason, but who after that allowed it to go its own way, precisely because reason was one of his chief gifts to humanity, and order a gift to his creation. This was the approach to divinity known as deism.
gloss: Belief in a god who ceased to intervene with existence after acting as the cause of the cosmos.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Related words: clockwork universe
clockmaker
watchmaker
Derived words: deist
deistic
deistical
deistically
deists
moralistic therapeutic deism
pandeism
panendeism
polydeism
Translations:
lang: Arabic
word: رُبُوبِيَّة
roman: rubūbiyya
lang: Bulgarian
word: деизъм
roman: deizǎm
lang: Catalan
word: deisme
lang: Chinese Cantonese
word: 自然神論 /自然神论
roman: zi⁶ jin⁴ san⁴ leon⁶
lang: Chinese
word: 自然神論 /自然神论
roman: chū-jiân-sîn-lūn, chū-liân-sîn-lūn
lang: Chinese
word: 理神論 /理神论
roman: lí-sîn-lūn
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 自然神論 /自然神论
roman: zìránshénlùn
lang: Czech
word: deismus
lang: Danish
word: deisme
lang: Dutch
word: deïsme
lang: Esperanto
word: diismo
lang: Estonian
word: deism
lang: Finnish
word: deismi
lang: French
word: déisme
lang: Georgian
word: დეიზმი
roman: deizmi
lang: German
word: Deismus
lang: Greek
word: ντεϊσμός
roman: nteïsmós
lang: Hebrew
word: דאיזם
roman: deizm
lang: Hindi
word: तटस्थेश्वरवाद
roman: taṭastheśvarvād
lang: Hindi
word: देववाद
roman: devvād
lang: Hungarian
word: deizmus
lang: Icelandic
word: frumgyðistrú
lang: Ido
word: deismo
lang: Indonesian
word: deisme
lang: Irish
word: dias
lang: Italian
word: deismo
lang: Japanese
word: 理神論
roman: rishinron
lang: Khmer
word: ទេពនិយម
roman: teip ni’yum
lang: Korean
word: 자연신론
roman: jayeonsillon
lang: Korean
word: 이신론
roman: isillon
lang: Central Kurdish
word: خواباوەڕی
roman: xwabawerrî
lang: Polish
word: deizm
lang: Portuguese
word: deísmo
lang: Romanian
word: deism
lang: Russian
word: деи́зм
roman: deízm
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: deizam
lang: Spanish
word: deísmo
lang: Swedish
word: deism
lang: Thai
word: เทวัสนิยม
lang: Turkish
word: deizm
lang: Turkish
word: yaradancılık
lang: Ukrainian
word: деїзм
roman: dejizm
lang: Urdu
word: ربوبیت
roman: rabobiyat