John Toland

John Toland (1670-1722) was an Irish rationalist philosopher and a political and deistical writer, born in Derry, of Catholic parents. He abandoned the Catholic faith. He studied at Leyden and Oxford. His first work, "Christianity not Mysterious," which created a great stir, and was burned in Ireland by the common hangman. It was succeeded, along with others, by "Nazarenus," which traced Christianity to conflicting elements in the early Church. He was a disciple of John Locke.

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