DEOLOGY: Christian Deist Reflections on Natural Religion

Is it possible to love the teachings of Jesus, believe in a Creator, but struggle with traditional church dogma? Welcome to Deology. This book fills a critical gap in the evolving current of deistic thought — and claims for Christianity, broadly understood, a set of illuminating principles and intuitions.

For the rational thinker, the choice has felt painfully binary: blind obedience to religious dogma, or total abandonment of faith. But there is a third way.

Millions of people today find themselves in a spiritual twilight zone. They believe in a Creator and find deep moral wisdom in the gospels, but can no longer accept traditional church doctrines, miracles, or exclusive theology. DEOLOGY offers that third way — one with a rich, historic lineage that prioritizes reason, nature, and the moral core of Christianity.

Without sacrificing the essentials of faith, this book works to vindicate and rehabilitate Christianity in the eyes of the skeptic and secular world, offering solutions to long-standing theological problems that have turned into stumbling blocks for many who value free thought and inquiry.

Some of the Founding Fathers — as well as Abraham Lincoln — have been characterized as Christian deists. Intellectually defensible and coherent deism, this book argues, is Christian deism: the very principles that informed the ideological foundations of the American nation.