Atheism and Deism RevaluedHeterodox Religious Identities in Britain, 1650–1800
Ed. Wayne Hudson;Diego Lucci;Jeffrey R Wigelsworth
With 14 essays discussing topics including Thomas Hobbes’s atheism, definitions of blasphemy in the 18th century, and William Wollaston’s The Religion of Nature Delineated (1722), this volume argues that, in the 17th and 18th centuries, the contentious terms ‘atheism’ and ‘deism’ involved fine distinctions that have not always been preserved by later scholars.