Toland, John(1670–1722)
John Toland was an English deist, philosopher, diplomat, political controversialist, secular and biblical scholar, and linguist. Christened "Janus Junius" ...
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The controversial British scholar John Toland (1670-1722) is classified as a deist, although the term is not totally suitable to the content of his work or the range of his activities as a linguist, t...
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As the major deistic thinker of the decades before and after 1700, John Toland linked biblical criticism, metaphysical speculation, and political pamphleteering in ways that intrigued, enraged, and em...
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