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ˌtheophiˈlanthropy
[a. F. théophilanthropie, intended to express ‘love to God and man’: cf. prec.]
The deistic system of the theophilanthropists, based on a belief in the existence of God and in the immortality of the soul.
Theophilanthropy was adopted in France as a substitute for Roman Catholicism. It died out c 1801–2.
1798W. Taylor in Monthly Rev. XXVII. 500 The rise of Martinism and of Theophilanthropy. 1847J. Hare Vict. Faith 7 His Christianity..has been stunted and enervated,..into a sort of sentimental theophilanthropy. 1895Péronne Veil of Liberty 395 The pastor of Versailles closed his church..and reopened it to preach Theophilanthropy. |