Christian deism is a standpoint in the philosophy of religion stemming from Christianity and Deism. It refers to a Deist who believes in the moral teachings—but not the divinity—of Jesus. The earliest-found usage of the term Christian deism in print in English is in in a book by Thomas Morgan , [2] appearing about ten times by Christian deism is influenced by Christianity, as well as both main forms of deism: classical and modern. The philosophy adopts the ethics and non-mystical teachings of Jesus while denying that Jesus was a deity. Scholars of the Founding Fathers of the United States "have tended to place the founders' religion into one of three categories—non-Christian deism, Christian deism, and orthodox Christianity.

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The Trinitarian controversy in late seventeenth-century England saw the confrontation of Unitarian theologians, who drew on Socinianism and other theological traditions in denying the Trinity, and Trinitarian divines, who provided different justifications of the Trinitarian dogma, mainly through metaphysical speculation. However, in their works of the mids, Tindal and Toland employed historical, critical, and philological methods that subjected Scripture to the criteria of unprejudiced reason and scholarship. As a result, they clashed with one another and caused embarrassment in the Church of England, to such a point that the ecclesiastical and political authorities eventually intervened to end the controversy in