Republican Learning: John Toland and the Crisis of Christian Culture, 1696-1722Manchester University Press, 2003 - 264 sider This volume explores the life, thought and political commitments of the free-thinker John Toland (1670-1722). Studying both his private archive and published works, it illustrates how Toland moved in both subversive and elite political circles in England and abroad. It explores the connections between his republican political thought and his irreligious belief about Christian doctrine, the ecclesiastical establishment and divine revelation, arguing that far from being a marginal and insignificant figure, Toland counted queens, princes and government ministers as his friends and political associates. In particular his intimate relationship with the Electress Sophia of Hanover saw him act as a court philosopher, but also as a powerful publicist for the Hanoverian succession. |
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libraries friends and conversation25 | 25 |
John Toland and print and scribal communities45 | 45 |
PART II | 91 |
impostors legislators and civil religion167 | 167 |
patristic erudition and the attack on Scripture190 | 190 |
ancient virtue213 | 213 |
CONCLUSION | 221 |
WRITING ENLIGHTENMENT236 | 236 |
SELECT TOLANDIANA257 | 257 |
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