Titlebook: Early Deism in France; From the so-called ‘ C. J. Betts Book 1984 Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, The Hague 1984 Deism.Montesquieu.Utopia.Volt

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Gilbert’s ,: Rational Deism with Protestant Overtonesnction, and was not distributed or sold; but its historical significance is considerable, since it contains, for the first time, a religious system which is unequivocally deistic. The ‘Avaites’ profess a complete and coherent form of natural religion, obviously Cartesian in character, which is indep

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Lahontan and Gueudeville: Natural Religion from Canadaetween the religious representatives of Europe and a distant country, in this case Canada, or New France. In order to compose the ., Gilbert had devised a Utopian setting for an indigenous French form of natural religion, based on Cartesian rationalism. Lahontan reversed the process: he observed a r

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The Anti-Christian Deism of the Militaire Philosophe name of its unidentified author, an army officer turned philosopher.. His massive and elaborate . is one of the most impressive achievements in the history of deism. Its defects, mainly repetitiveness, are largely due to the author’s lack of literary or philosophical training. It was written in abo

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The , and Other Clandestine Worksnd goes under a variety of titles. The commonest, and the most appropriate for the content, is ‘Examen de la religion’, which was used after 1760 for printed editions. Another is ‘Doutes sur la religion’, sometimes with the insincere addition ‘dont on cherche l’eclaircissement de bonne foi’ (the pur

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Tyssot de Patot: Types of Deism and Religious Criticisms XIV in 1715; the influence of Fénelon superseded that of Malebranche and Bossuet; and the English deists, notably Anthony Collins, began to be known in France — well after French deism had been created, despite the long-standing scholarly myth that it came from England.. But the more general assoc

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Voltaire: ,ild disagreement with orthodoxy. The number rises continuously until 1720, and falls from 1725 until 1745.. From about 1715, moreover, works in defence of Christianity are of small distinction, except for Houtteville’s in 1722. There is one outstanding figure, or rather reputation: Fénelon had died

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Conclusionstes’ or ‘deisme’ has to be distinguished, for well over a century, from the history of the ideas which directly anticipate deism in the form it acquired during the Enlightenment. The words basically refer, as in modern usage, to those who believe only in God; but this means different things in diffe

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