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What is Deism? by Dr Leonard Long

By Leonard Long, 23rd July, 2015. Deism is the belief that a God made the universe, and then was all hands off. Deists believed in God but denied that he was active in the history of Israel or in the person of Jesus of Nazareth. The Deist debate exploded in Britain around 1700. Deism developed from the "Scientific Revolution" in the 17th century and then became the philosophical basis of Critical Liberal Theology, which broke the tie between Western academic theology and Christian theism. Deism was the isthmus between the continents of theism and atheism and developed into one-way traffic from theism to atheism during the 18th century. However, in 2005 Antony Flew, probably the most eminent atheist philosopher of the 20th century, converted from atheism to deism before his death. Is this the beginning of the reversal of flow across the isthmus of deism? Leonard Long provides an overview of the deist debate in Britain and show its relevance to our current situation. It should help us to understand our history and the forces that have affected our culture.