Deism category: 48 books
by Damon Cohen
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2012
DEISM (Lat. deus, god), strictly the belief in one supreme God. It is however the received name for a current of rationalistic theological thought which, though not confined to one country, or to any well-defined period, was most conspicuous in England in the last years of the 17th and the first...
The Panendeism Treatise
Panendeism: Its Past, Its Present, and Its Future
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2017
The first official publication on Panendeism covering its history, origins, implications, and examining how it stands out from similar philosophies.
Panendeism is the next logical step for Deism. As a unique focus within Deism, Panendeism is a culmination of God philosophies from the greatest minds in Physics.
God Without Religion
An Alternative View of Life, the Universe and Everything
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2019
Which is right, atheism or organised religion? Answer: Neither. What's wrong with atheism? The intolerant radical "New Atheists" of today champion the theory of evolution by natural selection, which may help to explain small changes and variations in living things but can't explain the origin...
Deism and Social Ethics
the role of religion in the third millennium
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2007
Religion in many parts of the world, in both politics and personal life, for good or ill, is now exerting a greater influence than at any time in living memory. There is now not merely a cultural-religious confrontation between a worldwide Islam and what it sees as an affluent agnostic West, but the...
by Thomas Paine
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
The author of Rights of Man and Common Sense argues for belief in God without religion.
My own mind is my own church.
In The Age of Reason, political activist and Founding Father Thomas Paine makes a powerful case for a rational approach to theology. In keeping with the intellectual tradition...
The Age of Reason
Being an Investigation of True and Fabulous Theology
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2015
The Age of Reason follows in the tradition of eighteenth-century British deism, and challenges institutionalized religion and the legitimacy of the Bible. The Age of Reason presents common deistic arguments, highlighting what Paine saw as corruption of the Christian Church and criticizing its efforts to acquire political power.
Revolutionary Spirits
The Enlightened Faith of America's Founding Fathers
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
Revolutionary Spirits confronts many of the later myths about the religious views of America’s Founders, and brings to life their complex creeds and personalities. It offers clear and candid portraits of Franklin, Washington, Paine, Adams, Jefferson, and Madison as both religious reformers and political rebels, and reclaims their spiritual inheritance for today.
Emerson's Protégés
Mentoring and Marketing Transcendentalism's Future
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2014
In the late 1830s, Ralph Waldo Emerson, American essayist, poet, lecturer, and leader of the Transcendentalist movement, publicly called for a radical nationwide vocational reinvention, and an idealistic group of collegians eagerly responded. Assuming the role of mentor, editor, and promoter, Emerson...
God Against the Gods
The History of the War Between Monotheism and Polytheism
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2005
"Lively… points out that the conflict between the worship of many gods and the worship of one true god never disappeared." —Publishers Weekly
"Jonathan Kirsch has written another blockbuster about the Bible and its world." —David Noel Freedman, Editor-in-Chief of the...
by Havelock Ellis
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2017
The New Spirit written by Havelock Ellis who was an English physician, writer, progressive intellectual and social reformer. This book is one of many works by him. It has already Published in 1890. Now republish in ebook format. We believe this work is culturally important in its original archival...
Enlightenment and Modernity
The English Deists and Reform
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2015
The writers known as the English deists were not simply religious controversialists, but agents of reform who contributed to the emergence of modernity. This title claims that these writers advocated a failed ideology which itself declined after 1730. It argues for an evolution of their ideas into a more modern form.
The English Deists
Studies in Early Enlightenment
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
Interprets the works of an important group of writers known as 'the English deists'. This title argues that this interpretation reads Romantic conceptions of religious identity into a period in which it was lacking. It contextualizes these writers within the early Enlightenment, which was multivocal, plural and in search of self definition.
by Theo Dorgan
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2008
A Book of Uncommon Prayer is a collection of spiritual and devotional texts, drawn from both inside and outside the limits of the world's religious traditions. Intended for believers and non-believers alike, it is organized with attention to the occasions of prayer, prayerful thought, and meditation....
Focus on Reason
A Deist Speaks His Mind
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2013
LET US BE TRANSFORMED BY THE RENEWAL OF OUR MINDS.