Sentences with 'deism'
Example sentences and phrases with the word deism and other words derived from it.
• « This type of religious outlook became known as deism, and its advocates deists, people who believed that God did not intervene in everyday life but simply set the universe in motion, and then withdrew to observe. »
• « Most Enlightenment thinkers argued that the "real" natural universe was governed by natural laws, all watched over by a benevolent but utterly remote "supreme being" - this was essentially the same as the deism that had emerged from the Scientific Revolution. »
• « Franklin subscribed to deism, an Enlightenment-era belief in a God who created, but has no continuing involvement in the world and the events surrounding it. »
• « Franklin's deism guided his many philanthropic projects. In 1731, he established a reading library that became the Philadelphia Library Company. »