/ˈdiːɪz(ə)m/, /ˈdeɪ-/
OriginFrom French déisme, from Latin deus (“god, deity”) + -ism.
- countable, uncountableA religious philosophy and movement prominent in 17th-18th-century England, France, and what is now the United States which rejected supernatural events such as prophecy and miracles, divine revelation, and holy books or revealed religions that assert such things exist.
- alt-of, countable, uncountableAlternative letter-case form of deism.
- uncountable, usuallyA 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.
“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 ”
“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 ”
- uncountable, usuallyBelief in a god who ceased to intervene with existence after acting as the cause of the cosmos.
FormsDeisms(plural) · deisms(plural) · Deism(alternative)