Joseph Waligore

The Spirituality of the English and American Deists

How God Became Good

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Produktbeschreibung

The English and American deists rejected Christianity, which they believed portrayed God as cruel. In The Spirituality of the English and American Deists, Waligore shows how the deists were the first group of modern thinkers who were spiritual but not religious.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 346
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Februar 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 670g
• ISBN-13: 9781666920635
• ISBN-10: 1666920630
• Artikelnr.: 66172412

Autorenporträt

Joseph Waligore is a retired philosophy and religious studies professor at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter One: The Myth of Deism's Inactive and Distant God
Chapter Two: The Origins of Seventeenth-Century English Deism
Chapter Three: The Protestant Background of Eighteenth-Century English
Deism
Chapter Four: God's Fairness and Eighteenth-Century English Deism
Chapter Five: The English Deists and the Socratic Spiritual Tradition
Chapter Six: Jesus-centered Deism in England
Chapter Seven: The Religious Beliefs of Ben Franklin
Chapter Eight: The Religious Beliefs of Thomas Jefferson and John Adams
Chapter Nine: The Religious Beliefs of George Washington
Chapter Ten: Deism and the American Founders
Chapter Eleven: The Popularity and Decline of Thomas Paine's Kind of Deism
Chapter Twelve: The Rebirth of Jesus-centered Deism in Liberal
Protestantism
Conclusion: Contemporary American Deism
Appendix One: Supernatural Beliefs of the English Deists
Appendix Two: A Register of the English Deists
Bibliography
About the Author