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Drawing on a variety of published and unpublished material representing Toland's broad interests, Professor Daniel reveals a common theme emphasizing man's capacity for independent thought on basic philosophical, religious, and political issues. Roughly chronological, Daniel's treatment describes Toland's progressive refinement of this fundamental aspect of his thought. After examining, in his early works, the process whereby religion becomes mystified, Toland turned to biography, demonstrating that through it one can regain rational control over religion. Prejudices and superstitions, topics of the Letters to Serena, are shown to be overcome through corrections implicit in the principles of biographical and historical exegesis. Polemic as philosophic methode required Toland to provide a doctrine of esoteric communication. In the course of his later writings this doctrine became grounded in a metaphysics suitable for the Cieronian religion of the pantheists.

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This volume explores the life, thought and political commitments of the free-thinker John Toland (1670-1722). Studying both his private archive and published works, it illustrates how Toland moved in both subversive and elite political circles in England and abroad ... The book explores the connections between Toland's republican political thought and his irreligious belief about Christian doctrine, the ecclesiastical establishment and divine revelation, arguing that far from being a marginal and insignificant figure, he counted queens, princes and government ministers as his friends and political associates ... Overall, it illustrates how Toland's ideas and influence impacted upon English political life between the 1690's and the 1720's.

Great Britain - Church history - 16th century. --- Toland, John. --- Regions & Countries - Europe --- Philosophy & Religion --- History & Archaeology --- Great Britain --- Philosophy --- Toland, John, --- Influence. --- Church history --- Politics and government --- Philosophers --- Patricola, --- Scholars --- toland --- religion --- hanoverian --- John Toland --- Melbourne University Publishing --- Moses --- Republicanism

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This book examines the four most important projects for Jewish emancipation in eighteenth-century Europe. The essays presented analyze the proposal advanced by the freethinker John Toland in 1714 and three projects of the 1780's, formulated by the state official Christian Wilhelm von Dohm in Frederick the Great's Prussia, the economist Count D'Arco in Mantua under Habsburg rule, and the Abbé Henri Grégoire in France on the eve of the Revolution. Focusing on the combination of humanitarian and utilitarian arguments and objectives in the proposals to redefine the legal and social status of the Jews, this book is a particularly useful resource for scholars and students interested in the history of Jewish-Gentile relations and the Age of Enlightenment.

Jews --- Philosemitism --- Antisemitism --- Hebrews --- Israelites --- Jewish people --- Jewry --- Judaic people --- Judaists --- Ethnology --- Religious adherents --- Semites --- Judaism --- Philo-Semitism --- Philsemitism --- Anti-Jewish attitudes --- Anti-Semitism --- Ethnic relations --- Prejudices --- Cultural assimilation --- Emancipation --- Toland, John, --- Dohm, Christian Wilhelm von, --- D'Arco, Giambattista Gherardo, --- Grégoire, Henri, --- Arco, Giovanni Battista Gherardo d', --- Arco, Giambattista Gherardo d', --- D'Arco, Gio. Battista Gherardo --- Arco, --- Von Dohm, Christian Wilhelm, --- Dohm, Christian Konrad Wilhelm von, --- Dohm, Krisṭiʼan Ṿilhelm, --- Dohm, Krisṭyan Ṿilhelm, --- דוהם, כריסטיאן וילהלם --- Patricola, --- Europe --- History --- Council of Europe countries --- Eastern Hemisphere --- Eurasia