Immanuel Kant's identification with deism is controversial. ===Decline of Enlightenment deism=== Gay describes Enlightenment deism as entering slow decline, as a recognisable movement, in the 1730s.
In Waring's words ===Deism in the United States=== Until 1776 the (now) United States were colonies of the British empire and Americans, as British subjects, were influenced by and participated in the intellectual life of England and Great Britain.
His The Age of Reason (Parts I and II in 1794 and 1795) was short, readable, and is probably the only deist tract that continues to be read, and to be influential, today. The last contributor to American deism was Elihu Palmer (1764–1806), who wrote the "Bible of American deism", Principles of Nature, in 1801.
His The Age of Reason (Parts I and II in 1794 and 1795) was short, readable, and is probably the only deist tract that continues to be read, and to be influential, today. The last contributor to American deism was Elihu Palmer (1764–1806), who wrote the "Bible of American deism", Principles of Nature, in 1801.
His The Age of Reason (Parts I and II in 1794 and 1795) was short, readable, and is probably the only deist tract that continues to be read, and to be influential, today. The last contributor to American deism was Elihu Palmer (1764–1806), who wrote the "Bible of American deism", Principles of Nature, in 1801.
Simon Tyssot de Patot and the Seventeenth-Century Background of Critical Deism (Johns Hopkins Press, 1941) Orr, John.
Graham Waring (Frederick Ungar, 1967) The American Deists: Voices of Reason & Dissent in the Early Republic by Kerry S.
Hume on God: Irony, deism and genuine theism (Bloomsbury, 2008). ===Primary sources=== Deism: An Anthology by Peter Gay (Van Nostrand, 1968) Deism and Natural Religion: A Source Book by E.
Early Deism in France: From the so-called 'deistes' of Lyon (1564) to Voltaire's 'Lettres philosophiques' (1734) (Martinus Nijhoff, 1984) Craig, William Lane.
The Historical Argument for the Resurrection of Jesus During the Deist Controversy (Edwin Mellen, 1985) Hazard, Paul.
(U of Delaware Press, 1987). Lucci, Diego.
Some critics of deism have accused adherents of facilitating the rise of nihilism. === Deism in contemporary America === The 2001 American Religious Identification Survey (ARIS) survey estimated that between 1990 and 2001 the number of self-identifying deists grew from 6,000 to 49,000, representing about 0.02% of the US population at the time.
Walters (University of Kansas Press, 1992), which includes an extensive bibliographic essay by Bob Johnson, founder of the World Union of Deists by Bob Johnson by Bob Johnson ==External links== World Union of Deists Church of The Modern Deist Theism Monotheism Philosophy of religion
It has been noted that the term does not describe any school of thought within deism itself. ===Deism on the web === There are a number of web sites and web pages devoted to advocating and discussing deism and making information about deism available to the general public. There is a deism subreddit. In 1993 Bob Johnson founded the World Union of Deists (WUD), the first Deist organization since the days of Thomas Paine and Elihu Palmer.
In 1996 he created deism.com, the first website devoted to Deism.
Some critics of deism have accused adherents of facilitating the rise of nihilism. === Deism in contemporary America === The 2001 American Religious Identification Survey (ARIS) survey estimated that between 1990 and 2001 the number of self-identifying deists grew from 6,000 to 49,000, representing about 0.02% of the US population at the time.
Enlightenment contested: philosophy, modernity, and the emancipation of man 1670-1752 (Oxford UP, 2006). Lemay, J.
Scripture and deism: The biblical criticism of the eighteenth-century British deists (Peter Lang, 2008). McKee, David Rice.
Hume on God: Irony, deism and genuine theism (Bloomsbury, 2008). ===Primary sources=== Deism: An Anthology by Peter Gay (Van Nostrand, 1968) Deism and Natural Religion: A Source Book by E.
An Age of Infidels: The Politics of Religious Controversy in the Early United States (U of Pennsylvania Press; 2013) 295 pages; on conflicts between deists and their opponents. Willey, Basil.
Enlightenment and modernity: The English deists and reform (Routledge, 2015). Israel, Jonathan I.
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