Suppose some friends have reached an impasse in their discussion of whether a “Christian” perspective informed the views of America’sfounders, who at times spoke of “God.”You tell your friends that they’re unlikely to make much progress without first making the crucial distinction between those founders who were deists and those who were Christian theists.
Impressed by your comment, and knowing that you are taking THEO 100, they ask you to set the question of American history aside and explain carefully and thoroughly the difference between deism and Christian theism, using specific examples from the course to illustrate some of the distinctively “theistic” aspects of Christianity..
