deistic

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Remarkably, though, the Diderot character never counters his opponent with references to God or grace or natural law or even the abstract Deistic divine.

From The New Yorker • Feb. 25, 2019

Franklin was thoroughly of the Deistic faith of the thinkers of England and France in his time.

From Unitarianism in America by Cooke, George Willis

This simple Deistic phrase, "under God," is the only utterance of a religious character to be found in that oration.

From Abraham Lincoln: Was He A Christian? by Remsburg, John B.

The theology of the Deistic age is identical with Rationalism.

From History of Rationalism Embracing a Survey of the Present State of Protestant Theology by Hurst, J. F. (John Fletcher)

They are dead; the necessity which called the Deistic ideal into existence is dead; the ideal itself is dead, since Paul preached in Athens its funeral sermon.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 40, February, 1861 by Various