| 词汇 | deism |
| 释义 | deism noun[ U ] religion (alsoDeism)uk /ˈdeɪ.ɪ.zəm/ us /ˈdiː.ɪ.zəm//ˈdeɪ.ɪ.zəm/ the belief in a single god who created the world but does not act to influence events: 自然神论 Deism is a philosophical system that acknowledges God, but considers him a passive observer of his creation. Deism could be seen as a kind of compromise between faith and science. Related word deist Compare theism atheism agnosticism I was taught that the founding fathers' religious leaning was toward deism. Edward Herbert is regarded as the founder of English deism. In fact, Deism contends that God has nothing to do with religion. Many regarded deism as an ill-conceived attempt to reconcile religion with scientific discoveries. Religious beliefs & atheistic beliefs agnosticism Anglicanism animist anti-Catholic anti-Catholicism fetishistic heresy heretical heretically humanism humanistic humanistically mysticism orthodoxy religiously scriptural scripturally superstitiously theodicy theologically Among these, it is, too frequently, the practice to make in their heat concessions to atheism or deism, which their most confident advocates had never dared to claim, or to hope. As we have seen, the earliest current report charged him with deism. In the not far distant past deism and pantheism served as a polite subterfuge for atheism. People constantly speak as if deism only came in with the eighteenth century. |
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