Deism

Paul Gustave Marie Camille Hazard, born August 30th, the year of 1878 was a French educator, a historian of ideas, and a scholar of comparative literature. The Crisis of the European Mind, which is written by Hazard, is filled with intellectual history that gives the synopsis of the creation of Modern Europe. Hazard’s book takes a look at the transition from the old world to the new world, new developments such as science, arts, and philosophy, and how characters such as Pierre Bayle and John…

“Everything that is right or reasonable pleads for separation. The blood of the slain, the weeping voice of nature cries, 'tis time to part.” (Thomas Paine Common Sense) On January 9th, 1776 Common Sense was published, it was written in simple words so it was an easy read and presented good reasons on why America should independent of British law. “Society is produced by our wants, and government by our wickedness; the former promotes our happiness positively by uniting our affections, the…

Why You Think The Way You Do by Glenn S. Sunshine describes worldviews beginning with Rome and ending with our worldview today. He goes through and talks about each worldview and what shaped it and also how it leads to the next worldview during European history. He talks about the major viewpoints during European history. He begins with the worldview of ancient Rome then to Christianity followed by Medieval, which years later led to the Enlightenment and Renaissance worldview and then eventually…

Sufficiency of Scripture While discussing the Sufficiency of Scripture, Deere suggests that if a person truly wants to fully experience the Holy Spirit, the Bible is not enough to accomplish this task. Deere relates Sufficiency of Scripture directly to Deism. Saying Deists define Sufficiency as…

[1a] Is not believing what we know irrational, and is believing what we do not know irresponsible? [1b] The problem is that the harmony of humankind under God is lost because in Western societies, understanding of knowledge is set apart from or opposite to faith, and this configuration has led to the global acceptance of scientific knowledge instead of the knowledge of Christ as the truth of reality. [1c] Harmony will be regained by first knowing the reality of God and His presence in human…

For the follower of King Messiah there comes some many forthright questions which need to be answered in the regards of revelation of the Bible, how the Bible was inspired,and what is the authority of the Bible. In other words: is the Bible speaking to me? How do I know the Bible is not just another document? Why should this old book have authority over me? These are valid questions which many believers today take for granted. Yet, the importance of these questions infect the life of the…

“Yes!” What are we to think of what Freeman believes, i.e., what is his worldview? He seems like he wants to agree (and disagree!) with everyone that there is some “goodness” in all religions. He believes in providence, to which he gives a nod to Deism, but also wants to mix all the “best” components of all religions to make it as if they all mean the same thing. Just as no two worldviews are exactly the same; Freeman mixes pantheistic thoughts (i.e., God is inside you), with new age thought…

Paperback format: Duration: 100 pages Publisher: Simon & Brown (2010) - - - More is Less (The definition of ou, is not, and topos, being place... overal adds to a literal meaning of "nowhere" or "not-place") I 've refrained from using Latin wordage which crops up in More 's 'Utopia. ' Granted, some of the phrases are somewhat peculiar sounding and disjointed, likely from the Latin translation; I assume. It wasn 't exactly a distraction - nevertheless, I made a conscious effort in not…

'It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen ' - presumably a twenty-four hour clock. This was when I first took note that TV had without an invite had invaded us... it sits nonchalently on the wall with an unbridaled power. Since, then I mistrust anything that 's transmitted from the screen - so I 've download an internal firewall to protect myself on the off-chance TV will be wanting my vote at some stage - TV on the TV on a TV debate... I feel nauseus at the…

Since the French and Indian War had just happened, Britain was in a lot of debt, so they decided to exploit the American Colonies so they could create greater revenue to pay off the debt and regain economic stability. The debt was so huge that it made the British government fall apart, thus it lead to conflicts that ultimately caused the Revolutionary war (Kindig, 1995). The British government decided to impose a series of taxes or navigation acts on the colonists to pay off the debt (Radojini;…