Deistic
or DEISTICAL, pertaining to deism or the deists; containing the doctrines of deism. Also a term applied to a controversy which arose in England in the 17th and 18th centuries, between those who believed and those who disbelieved in revelation; the latter, however, not occupying the atheistic standpoint, but accepting as a settled point the being of a God. The first, in point of time, of the celebrated English deists was Lord Herbert of Cherbury, the publication of whose work, "De Veritate" (1624), began the controversy.
There followed, on the same side, Hobbes, Tindal, Morgan, Toland, Bolingbroke, Paine, and others.