English deism and natural law : the case of Matthew Tindal

dc.contributor.author	Kavcic, John Andrew	en_US
dc.date.accessioned	2024-08-14T18:21:58Z
dc.date.available	2024-08-14T18:21:58Z
dc.date.copyright	1997	en_US
dc.date.issued	1997
dc.degree.department	Department of History
dc.degree.level	Master of Arts M.A.	en
dc.description.abstract	This thesis sets out to explore the problem of the nature of the late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century movement known as English deism. To do so, it takes the case of one of the English deists, Matthew Tindal. Following a detailed examination of a variety of primary and secondary sources, the study draws the following conclusions: that Tindal was not a political nor a social radical but rather a supporter of the post-Glorius Revolution political establishment; that he was not part of a movement of covert atheists but that he did launch a veiled attack on Christianity; that in his chief work, Christianity As Old As the Creation, he uses natural law as one of the cornerstones of his critique of Christianity and hence that the tradition of natural law should be considered as a factor in the intellectual origins of English deism. This study also examines the relation of John Locke to both this movement and Tindal in particular.
dc.format.extent	152 pages
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/1828/18363
dc.rights	Available to the World Wide Web	en_US
dc.title	English deism and natural law : the case of Matthew Tindal	en_US
dc.type	Thesis	en_US

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