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Sep 29, 1679 Died on 08 Feb 1747 (aged 67)
British philosopher
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About Thomas Chubb
- Thomas Chubb (29 September 1679 – 8 February 1747) was a lay English Deist writer born near Salisbury.
- He saw Christ as a divine teacher, but held reason to be sovereign over religion.
- He questioned the morality of religions, while defending Christianity on rational grounds.
- Despite little schooling, Chubb was well up on the religious controversies.
- His The True Gospel of Jesus Christ, Asserted sets out to distinguish the teaching of Jesus from that of the Evangelists.
- Chubb's views on free will and determinism, expressed in A Collection of Tracts on Various Subjects (1730), were extensively criticised by Jonathan Edwards in Freedom of the Will (1754).
