... of the views advanced by the deists are not reducible to one representative. Tindal saw unfounded appropriation of the soul's care as a defining aspect of priestcraft. Collins and his fellow deists proposed that total human freedom was the basis for the liberty enjoyed by all Britons. Many saw Collins writings...

.... Not only did they engage with Hobbes’s ideas consistently, they invoked his authority at a time when doing so was highly unpopular. Most fundamentally, they carried on Hobbes’s war against the kingdom of darkness and used various Hobbesian weapons for their own war against priestcraft. Through analysis...

... with Molesworth was the analysis of the Druidical past as a Complete History of Priestcraft. The chapter also discusses Toland's idea, contained in his Clidophorus, that the tyranny of priestcraft meant that the truth could rarely be spoken in public. Bruno Giordano Collins...

... Lutherans Lutheranism predestination Apelles Athanasius Chrysostom John Tertullian Cyprian Irenaeus Cosin John Trinitarianism Arians mortalism priestcraft sacraments civil religion enthusiasm ordination Alvarez Diego Bagshaw Edward Baxter Richard Bradwardine Thomas Bucer Martin Foxe...