• 3. While America remained highly spiritual, deism was a break from the concept of predestination. What
would Puritans think about
deism? How would they
view man's nature in
contrast to this shift in
thinking? Explain.
answer: Deism or “the religion of nature” was a form of rational theology that emerged among “freethinking” Europeans in the 17th and 18th centuries. Deists insisted that religious truth should be subject to the authority of human reason rather than divine revelation.
