''Christianity not Mysterious'' is a 1696 book by the radical thinker

John Toland John Toland (30 November 167011 March 1722) was an Irish rationalist philosopher and freethinker, and occasional satirist, who wrote numerous books and pamphlets on political philosophy and philosophy of religion, which are early expressions o ...

Publication history

The work was published anonymously between December 1695 and June 1696. Toland admitted his authorship in June 1696.

Influence

''Christianity not Mysterious'' is a seminal work in both

freethought Freethought (sometimes spelled free thought) is an epistemological viewpoint which holds that beliefs should not be formed on the basis of authority, tradition, revelation, or dogma, and that beliefs should instead be reached by other methods ...

and Irish philosophy. It is seen as a classic expression of

deism Deism ( or ; derived from the Latin ''deus'', meaning " god") is the philosophical position and rationalistic theology that generally rejects revelation as a source of divine knowledge, and asserts that empirical reason and observation o ...

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''Christianity not Mysterious''
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