• Thomas Morgan (died 1743) was an English deist. Morgan was first a dissenter preacher, then a practicer of healing among the Quakers, and finally a writer...
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    print in English is in 1738 in a book by Thomas Morgan, appearing about ten times by 1800. The term Christian deist is found as early as 1722, in Christianity...
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  • Queen of Scots Thomas J. Morgan (1847–1912), English-born American labor leader and socialist political activist Thomas Morgan (deist) (died 1743), Welsh...
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    Annet, Thomas Chubb, and Thomas Morgan. Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury was also influential; though not presenting himself as a Deist, he...
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    Thomas Chubb (29 September 1679 – 8 February 1747) was a lay English Deist writer born near Salisbury. He saw Christ as a divine teacher, but held reason...
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    the issue. In private De Morgan was a dissenter: He married into a Unitarian family, where his essentially Christian deist interpretations of scripture...
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    1739. His main interest was in opposing deism. He critiqued proponents of deist ideas, such as Matthew Tindal. He is remembered as the author of A view...
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    Thomas Alva Edison (February 11, 1847 – October 18, 1931) was an American inventor and businessman. He developed many devices in fields such as electric...
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  • Asaph and Principal of Jesus College, Oxford, 85 date unknown - Thomas Morgan, Deist theologian J.C. Sainty (1979). List of Lieutenants of Counties of...
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    The Age of Reason (category Books by Thomas Paine)
    ISBN 978-1-55481-045-1. Paine, Thomas. The Age of Reason, The Complete Edition Archived 10 October 2013 at the Wayback Machine World Union of Deists, 2009. ISBN 978-0-939040-35-3...
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  • theologian, 61? 1743 July 15 - John Wynne, bishop, 83? date unknown Thomas Morgan, Deist theologian Robert Wynne, clergyman and academic 1744 March 2 - William...
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  • Morelly ([182]) William Richard Morfill Conwy Lloyd Morgan Thomas Morgan (deist) Thomas Charles Morgan Robert Burnett David Morier André Saturnin Morin ([183])...
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    Philip Doddridge, and Henry Miles. He corresponded also with Thomas Morgan the Welsh deist and moral philosopher, of very different views but who found...
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    The American Crisis (category Works by Thomas Paine)
    nature of The American Crisis, the series of papers displayed Paine's strong deist beliefs, inciting the laity with suggestions that the British are trying...
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    not a deist... Adams did believe in miracles, providence, and, to a certain extent, the Bible as revelation." In 1796, Adams denounced Thomas Paine's...
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    once again into the deist controversy with A Vindication of the History of the Old Testament. This was a response to Thomas Morgan's The Moral Philosopher...
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    Benjamin Franklin (category American deists)
    Franklin best fit among the "Atheists, Deists, and Libertines." Whatever else Franklin was, concludes Morgan, "he was a true champion of generic religion...
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  • Philosophy and Theology; traces TJ's sources and emphasizes his incorporation of Deist theology into the Declaration. Kaminski, John P. (1995). A Necessary Evil...
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    to Calvinist orthodoxy, did not close the library. Other students found Deist books in the library. Yale College undergraduates follow a liberal arts...
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    with Scripture. Though to some extent anticipated by the British deist, Thomas Morgan, Semler was the first to take due note of and use for critical purposes...
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    Morris, Madison, Hamilton, and Washington) were neither Christians nor Deists, but rather supporters of a hybrid "theistic rationalism". Many founders...
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    George Boole (category British deists)
    Society. Though his biographer Des MacHale describes Boole as an "agnostic deist", Boole read a wide variety of Christian theology. Combining his interests...
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    piety and active zeal." In 1794, when Paine published The Age of Reason, a deist attack on Christianity, Porteus again requested More's help in combating...
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    agnostic, 11.0% as Pagan/Wiccan, 2.4% as Buddhist, 1.2% as Jewish, 1.1% as Deist, 0.9% as Satanist, and 26.2% as "other" (including "participants who had...
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  • anonymously, Hildrop published satirical essays, mainly directed against the Deists. Some of these were reprinted as The Miscellaneous Works of John Hildrop...
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  • Meskimen, Spencer Klein, Yeardley Smith, Verne Troyer, E.J. De La Pena, Jeff Deist, Nada Despotovich, Patrick Richwood, Kate McGregor-Stewart, Bruce Bohne...
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    Bertrand Russell (category De Morgan Medallists)
    control at a time when this was considered scandalous. Lord Amberley was a deist, and even asked the philosopher John Stuart Mill to act as Russell's secular...
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    religious faith as a young man. Biographer Don Cregier says he became "a Deist and perhaps an agnostic, though he remained a chapel-goer and connoisseur...
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    where he served as a vestryman. There is some evidence that Hewes was a deist[citation needed]—someone who believes in the existence of a supreme being...
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  • Descartes, scientist and philosopher Denis Diderot, Enlightenment author and deist philosopher Frantz Fanon Michel Foucault Camille Froidevaux-Metterie Édouard...
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