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Deism and Reaction to Henry Sacheverell and the Sermon Of 1709 Deism and Reaction to Henry Sacheverell and the Sermon Of 1709
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Anthony Collins’s Freethinking God Anthony Collins’s Freethinking God
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Francis Atterbury and the Nonjuror Response to Collins Francis Atterbury and the Nonjuror Response to Collins
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Ending the War of the Spanish Succession Ending the War of the Spanish Succession
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The Discourse of Free-Thinking The Discourse of Free-Thinking
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Dangers of Freethinking Dangers of Freethinking
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The Start of the Hanoverian Age The Start of the Hanoverian Age
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The Emergence of Thomas Chubb The Emergence of Thomas Chubb
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Collins’s Political Life and Divisions in the Whig Party Collins’s Political Life and Divisions in the Whig Party
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The Free-Thinker The Free-Thinker
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Thomas Morgan’s Unitarianism Thomas Morgan’s Unitarianism
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Conclusion Conclusion
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Notes Notes
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4 The spectre of High Church: politics and theology, 1709–19
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Published:March 2009
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Abstract
The deists figured prominently in the turbulent theological politics during 1709–19, contributing to the discourses that analysed contemporary politics along with other observers. Political controversies such as the Bangorian Controversy, the ending of the War of the Spanish Succession, and the split of the Whigs in the House of Commons inspired deists' publications. The second decade of the eighteenth century saw Anthony Collins begin to emerge as the most visible deist in England. The same years brought Thomas Chubb and Thomas Morgan on to the political and theological stage. The politics advanced by all the deists during this period was Whig. Deist fortunes seemed on the rise in 1718 when the Whig ministry of Stanhope and Sunderland introduced a bill repealing the Occasional Conformity and Schism Acts. While Parliament debated the implications of ending the ban on occasional conformity, the deists continued their attempts to describe the natural world.
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