deistic

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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

Natural science was deistic with Locke and Voltaire, it was pantheistic in the antique sense with Shaftesbury, it was pantheistic-mystical with Spinoza, spiritualistic with Descartes, theistic with Leibnitz, materialistic with the men of the Encyclopædia.

From An Outline of the History of Christian Thought Since Kant by Moore, Edward Caldwell