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Tindal, Matthew
Tindal, Matthew (1655–1733). One of the leading deists of the early 18th cent., Tindal came from Devon and attended Lincoln College, Oxford. In 1678 he obtained a fellowship at All Souls. After a brief flirtation with catholicism during the reign of James II, he moved into a low-church Erastian position and his book The Rights of the Christian Church Asserted (1706) scandalized high churchmen. Its sequel A Defence of the Rights of the Christian Church (1709) was burned by order of the House of Commons in 1710. His most celebrated work came out in 1730. In Christianity as Old as Creation, Tindal argued the case for natural religion. Though frequently accused of free thinking, he retained his fellowship at All Souls until his death.
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JOHN CANNON. "Tindal, Matthew." The Oxford Companion to British History. 2002. Encyclopedia.com. 1 Jun. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. JOHN CANNON. "Tindal, Matthew." The Oxford Companion to British History. 2002. Encyclopedia.com. (June 1, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O110-TindalMatthew.html JOHN CANNON. "Tindal, Matthew." The Oxford Companion to British History. 2002. Retrieved June 01, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O110-TindalMatthew.html |
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Matthew Tindal
Matthew Tindal , c.1655–1733, English deist. For a short time in the reign of James II he was a Roman Catholic, but in 1688 he returned to the Church of England. The first of his published writings to excite attention was The Rights of the Christian Church Asserted (1706), a defense of Erastianism; it was proscribed by Parliament. His Defence of the Rights of the Christian Church (1709) reiterated his position and was similarly condemned. Tindal's Christianity as Old as the Creation (1730), in which he set forth his rationalistic views, has been called the bible of deism.
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"Matthew Tindal." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2011. Encyclopedia.com. 1 Jun. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "Matthew Tindal." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2011. Encyclopedia.com. (June 1, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-Tindal-M.html "Matthew Tindal." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2011. Retrieved June 01, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-Tindal-M.html |
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Tindal, Matthew
Tindal, Matthew (1655–1733). One of the leading deists of the early 18th cent., Tindal came from Devon and attended Lincoln College, Oxford. In 1678 he obtained a fellowship at All Souls. His most celebrated work came out in 1730. In Christianity as Old as Creation, Tindal argued the case for natural religion. Though frequently accused of free‐thinking, he retained his fellowship at All Souls until his death.
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JOHN CANNON. "Tindal, Matthew." A Dictionary of British History. 2004. Encyclopedia.com. 1 Jun. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. JOHN CANNON. "Tindal, Matthew." A Dictionary of British History. 2004. Encyclopedia.com. (June 1, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O43-TindalMatthew.html JOHN CANNON. "Tindal, Matthew." A Dictionary of British History. 2004. Retrieved June 01, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O43-TindalMatthew.html |
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Tindal, Matthew
Tindal, Matthew (1655–1733), a leading Deist. His Christianity as Old as the Creation (1730) sought to show that there is an unchangeable law of nature common to all rational creatures; to this the Gospel was not designed to add or take away anything, but to free man from superstition.
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E. A. LIVINGSTONE. "Tindal, Matthew." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church. 2000. Encyclopedia.com. 1 Jun. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. E. A. LIVINGSTONE. "Tindal, Matthew." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church. 2000. Encyclopedia.com. (June 1, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O95-TindalMatthew.html E. A. LIVINGSTONE. "Tindal, Matthew." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church. 2000. Retrieved June 01, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O95-TindalMatthew.html |
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