MDDM Ch. 76 Deism

[Dave Monroe]

   "'You're not pleas'd with His Frequency of
Appearance,' frowns Johnson.  'Sir, be wary,-- for the
next step in such Petulance, is to define him as some
all-pervading Fairy-Dust, and style it Deism.'" (M&D,
Ch. 76, p. 747)


"His Frequency of Appearance"

Cf. ...

   "'By the time of Columbus, God's project of
Disengagement was obvious to all,-- with the terrible
understanding that we were to be left more and more to
our own solutions.'" (M&D, Ch. 50, p. 487)

Deus Absconditus (Hidden God)

"Verily thou art a God that hidest thyself, O God of
Israel, the Saviour."  Isaiah 45:15

http://www.bartleby.com/108/23/45.html#S69

The term Deus Absconditus means "hidden God" in Latin
(Isaiah, 45:15 in the Vulgate Bible), and refers to
the view (shared by the Protestant Luther and the
Catholic Pascal) that God had become inaccessible,
hiding himself from the view of sinful humans, and
therefore demanding a challenging existential act of
faith. Predestinarian theology held further that most
people were incapable of perceiving the hidden God,
whose gift of grace permitted the minority of the
"elect" to know him.

http://icg.harvard.edu/~laa72/glossary/deus_absconditus/

http://www.solideogloria.ch/calvin/italiano/deusabsconditus.htm

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0205&msg=66784&sort=date

Deism

http://www.deism.com/

http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/d/deismeng.htm

http://www.religioustolerance.org/deism.htm

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04679b.htm

Okay, another intermission ...


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