Being a freethinker for Tindal was both subscribing to an idea - namely, the sufficiency of natural religion - and an anticlerical social identity. With this explicit statement, Tindal became one of the very few individuals who openly self-identified as freethinkers in early eighteenth-century Britain. 14. Christianity as Old as the Creation

Matthew Tindal (1657 - 16 August 1733) was an ... His book Rights of the Christian Church had an immense impact on church/state relations and on the growth of freethinking. Tindal's Christianity as old ... Unlike the earlier system of Lord Herbert of Cherbury which relied on the notion of innate ideas, Tindal's system was based on the ...

Deism, freethinking and toleration in Enlightenment England. ... Focusing on John Toland, Anthony Collins and Matthew Tindal, this article argues that the English deists' tolerationist ideas played a significant role in their religious thinking, which consisted of their 'religious thoughts' and their 'thoughts about religion'. ...

Between the early 1690s and his death in 1733 Tindal made major contributions in a various areas. As Deputy Judge Advocate of the Fleet he had a large influence on the case law on piracy. His timely pamphlet on the freedom of the press was hugely influential in the ending of the legal requirement that all publications be licensed before being ...

While not as profound as his near contemporaries John Locke and David Hume, Tindal played an important part in the creation of the modern world. Between the early 1690s and his death in 1733 Tindal made major contributions in a various areas. As Deputy Judge Advocate of the Fleet he had a large influence on the case law on piracy.

Matthew Tindal, (1657 – August 16, 1733), was an eminent English deist whose works, highly influential at the dawn of the Enlightenment, caused great controversy and challenged the Christian consensus of his time. Tindal's Christianity as old as the Creation (1730) was the ultimate statement of the deist understanding of Christianity and was highly influential in England and on the Continent. Waring states that Tindal's Christianity as Old as the Creation (1730) "became, very soon after its publication, the focal center of the deist controversy. In Christianity as Old as the Creation, Tindal articulates many prominent facets of deism that held true through the subsequent centuries and still hold true among many deists today. Matthew Tindal, Christian Deist. Matthew Tindal, Christian Deist Retrieved February 3, 2008.