Matthew Tindal, freethinker an eighteenth-century assault on religion
He [Tindal] has been a most notorious ill Liver (registered as 'tis said, or deserving to be soe, at All Soul's under ye Title of Egregious Fornicator) -- Thomas Hearne, Remarks and Collections (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1885) Matthew Tindal was the outstanding freethinker of his time, famous for writing what became known as the 'Deists' Bible'. While not as profound as his near contemporaries John Locke and David Hume, Tindal played an important part in the creation of the modern world. Between the early 1690s and his death in 1733 Tindal made major contributions in a various areas. As Deputy
Biographies
1 online resource (191 p.).
9786611294427, 9781847144102, 6611294422, 1847144101
1306561774
Introduction; 1. Life and Character; 2. Privateers and Pirates; 3. Freedom of the Press; 4. The Authority of the Church; 5. Politics; 6. The Deists' Bible; 7. Verdicts of Time; Appendix I: A Note on Hermeneutics; Appendix II: The Lost Works; Appendix III: Proposals for Printing Two Volumes . . . Intitl'd Christianity as Old as the Creation; Bibliography; Index
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