deistic

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Remarkably, though, the Diderot character never counters his opponent with references to God or grace or natural law or even the abstract Deistic divine.

From The New Yorker • Feb. 25, 2019

These passages were replaced much later by purely Deistic formulas under the Grand Mastership of the free-thinking Duke of Sussex in 1813.

From Secret Societies And Subversive Movements by Webster, Nesta H.

It was, in effect, a crude and popular statement of the Deistic argument against Christianity.

From Brief History of English and American Literature by Beers, Henry A. (Henry Augustin)

They are dead; the necessity which called the Deistic ideal into existence is dead; the ideal itself is dead, since Paul preached in Athens its funeral sermon.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 40, February, 1861 by Various

During the later years of his life, however, he professed a sort of Deistic belief, but he did not accept the Christian or anthropomorphic conception of a Deity.

From Abraham Lincoln: Was He A Christian? by Remsburg, John B.