deistic
Americanadjective
Other Word Forms
- deistical adjective
- deistically adverb
Example Sentences
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The leaders of the American Revolution and the new republic held a mix of beliefs — some Christian, some Unitarian, some deistic or otherwise theistic.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 17, 2024
Influenced by deistic distaste for sectarian disputes, pragmatic politicians would eventually decide that the best solution was to disestablish the churches and cut off public funding in the name of religious freedom.
From Textbooks • Jan. 18, 2018
The deistic Matthew Tindal wielded Locke like a whip to demand that reason test all Christian beliefs.
From Salon • Nov. 26, 2015
Blake loathed the deistic, natural religion associated with Newton and Bacon.
From The Guardian • Aug. 17, 2010
So long as deistic views of the relation of God to man and the world held the field, revelation meant something interjected ab extra into the established order of things.
From An Outline of the History of Christian Thought Since Kant by Moore, Edward Caldwell
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