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See also:WOOLSTON, See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
THOMAS (1669—1731) , See also:English deist, See also:born at See also:Northampton in 1669, the son of a " reputable tradesman," entered See also:Sidney See also:College, See also:Cambridge, in 1685, studied See also:theology, took orders and was made a See also:fellow of his college. After a See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time, by the study of See also:Origen, he became possessed with the notion of the importance of an allegorical See also:- INTERPRETATION (from Lat. interpretari, to expound, explain, inter pres, an agent, go-between, interpreter; inter, between, and the root pret-, possibly connected with that seen either in Greek 4 p4'ew, to speak, or irpa-rrecv, to do)
interpretation of Scripture, and advocated its use in the See also:defence of See also:Christianity both in his sermons and in his first See also:book, The Old See also:Apology for the Truth of the See also:Christian See also:Religion against the See also:Jews and Gentiles Revived (1705). For many years he published nothing, but in 1720—1721 the publication of letters and See also:pamphlets in advocacy of his notions, with open challenges to the See also:clergy to refute them, brought him into trouble. It was reported that his mind was disordered, and he lost his fellowship. From 1721 he lived for the most See also:part in See also:London, on an See also:allowance of 30 a See also:year from his See also:brother and other presents. His See also:influence on the course of the deistical controversy began with his book, The See also:Moderator between an Infidel and an Apostate (1725, 3rd ed. 1729). The infidel " intended was See also:Anthony See also:Collins (q.v.), who had maintained in his book alluded to that the New Testament is based on the Old, and that not the literal but only the allegorical sense of the prophecies can be quoted in See also:- PROOF (in M. Eng. preove, proeve, preve, &°c., from O. Fr . prueve, proeve, &c., mod. preuve, Late. Lat. proba, probate, to prove, to test the goodness of anything, probus, good)
proof of the Messiahship of Jesus; the " apostate " was the clergy who had forsaken the allegorical method of the fathers. Woolston denied absolutely the proof from miracles, called in question the fact of the resurrection of See also:Christ and other miracles of the New Testament, and maintained that they must be interpreted allegorically, or as types of spiritual things. Two years later he began a See also:series of Discourses on the same subject, in which he applied the principles of his Moderator to the miracles of the Gospels in detail. The Discourses, 30,000 copies of which were said to have been sold, were six in number, the first appearing in 1727, the next five 1728—1729, with two Defences in 1729—1730. For these publications he was tried before See also:Chief See also:Justice See also:Raymond in 1729 and sentenced (See also:November 28) to pay a See also:fine of 25 for each of the first four Discourses, with imprisonment till paid, and also to a year's imprisonment and to give See also:security for his See also:good behaviour during See also:life. He failed to find this security, and remained in confinement until his See also:death on the 21St of See also:January 1731.
Upwards of sixty more or less weighty pamphlets appeared in reply to his Moderator and Discourses. Amongst the abler and most popular of them may be mentioned Z. See also:Pearce's The Miracles of Jesus Vindicated (1729); T. See also:Sherlock's The Tryal of the Witnesses of the Resurrection of Jesus (1729, 13th ed. 1755); and N. See also:Lardner's Vindication of Three of Our Saviour's Miracles (1729), Lardner being one of those who did not approve of the See also:prosecution of Woolston (see Lardner's Life by See also:Kippis, in Lardner's See also:Works, vol. i.).
See Life of Woolston prefixed to his Works in five volumes (London, 1733) ; See also:Memoirs of Life and Writings of See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William See also:Whiston (London, 1749, pp. 231-235) ; Appendix to A Vindication of the Miracles of our Saviour, &c., by J. See also:Ray (2nd ed., 1731); J. See also:Cairns, Unbelief in the Eighteenth See also:Century (188o) ; Sayous, See also:Les Deisles anglais (1882); and the See also:article See also:DEISM, with its bibliography.
End of Article: WOOLSTON, THOMAS (1669—1731)
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