..., 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...

... subscription the Trinity Chapman John Erastianism ridicule Hume David bible of deism civil authority Hobbesian moment Alberto Radicati Thomas Morgan Thomas Chubb William Warburton Anglicanism Christian deism churchism The heyday of English deism witnessed the appearance of Collins’s and Tindal’s...