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| | William Warburton [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] |
 | | The treatise was directed against the Deists (see also Deism), especially their doctrine of the Old Testament and their stress upon the omission of mention of immorality in the Old Testament. | | | Soon thereafter came his great work, The Divine Legation of Moses, Demonstrated on the Principles of a Religious Deist, from the Omission of the Doctrine of a Future State of Rewards and Punishments in the Jewish Dispensation. | | | In the retirement of country life during the earlier years of his activity he prosecuted his studies with great diligence, and wrote those works which have perpetuated his memory. |
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http://www.iep.utm.edu/w/warburto.htm
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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Miracle |
| | Deists reject miracles, for they deny the Providence of God. | | | Granting that these spirits may perform prodigies -- i.e., works of skill and ingenuity which, relatively to our powers, may seem to be miraculous -- yet these works lack the meaning and purpose which would stamp them as the language of God to men. | | | Agnostics also, and Positivists reject them: Comte regarded miracles as the fruit of the theological imagination. |
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http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/10338a.htm
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| | Deism is unparsimonious, because it cannot answer the question of why there is God rather than not God. | | | Deists retreat directly to the last trench, and use God only to answer the question of why there is something rather than nothing. | | | Always hoping that the gaps in scientific knowledge are about to miraculously stop shrinking, most fideists have retreated into a theism based on an increasingly irrelevant "God of the gaps". |
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http://humanknowledge.net/HumanKnowledge.txt
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| | deists on Encyclopedia.com |
| | Rosemarie Deist, Gender and Power: Counsellors and their Masters in Antiquity and Medieval Courtly Romance.(Book Review) | | | STEVEN L. Rosemarie Deist, Gender and Power: Counsellors and their Masters in Antiquity and Medieval Courtly Romance.(Book Review) | | | Voltaire and J. Rousseau were deists, as were Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and George Washington. |
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http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/d1/deists.asp
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