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The 47 pages that link to Deism, each with the reason it gives.

• VoltaireRelated: Voltaire criticized religious dogma while often defending belief in a rational creator.

• Natural theologyRelated: Natural-theological reasoning helped support belief in a creator independent of revealed religion.

• MonotheismRelated: It is one monotheistic position on how the single God relates to the world.

• French EnlightenmentRelated: It exemplified religious criticism that retained belief in a rationally ordered creator.

• Thomas PaineRelated: Paine’s deist commitments shaped his critique of biblical authority.

• Age of EnlightenmentRelated: It shows how some Enlightenment thinkers reconciled belief in God with criticism of religious institutions.

• NewtonianismRelated: Some thinkers interpreted Newtonian order as evidence for a rational creator.

• Modern philosophyRelated: Mechanistic accounts of nature encouraged arguments for religion grounded in reason.

• Antony FlewRelated: This was the position Flew adopted after rejecting atheism.

• PhilosophesRelated: Some philosophes used deism to reject church doctrine without rejecting God.

• Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d’ArgensRelated: Its rational approach to religion helps frame the disputes his works address.

• PandeismRelated: Pandeism retains deism’s nonintervention while changing what happens to the creator.