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<p> English deistical writer, born in Devonshire; studied at Oxford, became [[Fellow]] of All Souls', was first a Protestant, then a Catholic, and then a free-thinker of a very outspoken type, exhibited in a polemic which provoked hostility on all sides; his most famous work was "Christianity as old as Creation; or, the [[Gospel]] a Republication of the [[Religion]] of Nature," a work which did not attack Christianity, but rationalised it (1656-1733). </p> | <p> English deistical writer, born in Devonshire; studied at Oxford, became [[Fellow]] of All Souls', was first a Protestant, then a Catholic, and then a free-thinker of a very outspoken type, exhibited in a polemic which provoked hostility on all sides; his most famous work was "Christianity as old as Creation; or, the [[Gospel]] a Republication of the [[Religion]] of Nature," a work which did not attack Christianity, but rationalised it (1656-1733). </p> | ||
Latest revision as of 18:05, 15 October 2021
Matthew Tindal [1]
English deistical writer, born in Devonshire; studied at Oxford, became Fellow of All Souls', was first a Protestant, then a Catholic, and then a free-thinker of a very outspoken type, exhibited in a polemic which provoked hostility on all sides; his most famous work was "Christianity as old as Creation; or, the Gospel a Republication of the Religion of Nature," a work which did not attack Christianity, but rationalised it (1656-1733).
