See Dissecting Deism Past and Present
English Deists - Charles Blount
These various tendencies could not show themselves fully
under the ecclesiastical restraint of the Restoration, yet they appear clearly
enough in the writings of Charles Blount (d. 1693), usually placed second to
Herbert in the lists of Deists.
Like his predecessor, Blount dwells on the
conflict between rival religions, and finds a standard of adjustment in a fusion
of Herbert's theory of universal characteristics with Hobbes's prescription by
the State.
Like Hobbes and Spinoza, he touches serious problems of Biblical
criticism at this early date. Freedom from prejudice is his boast; he asserts
the supernatural character of Christianity on the basis of its miracles, after
he has already rendered them dubious by parallels with non-Christian miracles.
His works were: Anima mundi (London, 1679), Great is Diana of the Ephesians (1680), and The Two First Books of Philostratus concerning the Life of Apollonius Tyaneus, published in English with notes (1680).
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