Books in the Works in the History of British Deism series

Toland's text asserts that there is nothing in religion that was above reason and that no Christian doctrine could properly be called mysterious. The book attracted a large number of replies and responses, one of which is included in this volume - Browne's "Letter".

This volume presents documents in the history of deistic thought, many of which were first published clandestinely as publication was regarded as dangerous and would have been open to charges of subversion and treason.

One of the earliest contributions to the controversies about deism, "A Letter to the Deists" outlines Prideaux's belief that deism is the foundation of any religious belief. The second document in this volume was a popular gift, in the 18th-century, for parents, grandparents or god-parents to give

In this volume, Chandler, who produced numerous biblically-based attacks on the deists and a large number of sermons both individual and collected, attacks the deists and anyone who doubted the truth of revealed religion.

A reply to Mathew Tindal's "Christianity as Old as the Creation", this text when first published provoked criticism for the author's free-thinking beliefs and led to many exchanges of opinions with other theologians.

This volume outlines the author's scepticism about the veridity of some Old Testament history and provoked an open dispute with Samuel Chandler. Many of the theological ideas presented here are embedded in innovatory and persuasive ideas about ethics, language, anthropology and epistemology.

This volume presents work by Peter Annet, long considered by many to have been one of the most aggressive deists of the 18th-century.