English Deism Category
Atheists and Atheism before the Enlightenment
Posted on June 5, 2024 Leave a Comment
Michael Hunter, Emeritus Professor of History at Birkbeck, University of London, has published a new book: Atheists and Atheism Before the Enlightenment: The English and Scottish Experience (2023). Here I wish to give a brief overview of its contents. Over time I will return to this post to add more content and thoughts. In his […]
The English Deists
Posted on January 14, 2015 Leave a Comment
In addition to reading Cunningham, I have spent the last several days reading works on the Cambridge Platonists and seventeenth-century latitudinarian theologians: Benjamin Whichcote (1609-83), Peter Sterry (1613-72), George Rust (d.1670), John Wilkins (1614-72), Henry More (1614-87), Ralph Cudworth (1617-88), John Smith (1618-52), John Worthington (1618-71), Nathaniel Culverwel (1619-51), Simon Patrick (1626-1707), John Tilloston (1630-94), […]