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Toland was born on November 30, 1670 in Ardagh, County Donegal, Ireland. His parents are unknown.
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Born in Inishowen, Co. Donegal (Ireland), John Toland (1670-1722) was one of the most significant Anglophone intellectuals of the early 18th century. He blazed a remarkable trail across Europe, becoming famous - and infamous - as philosopher, scholar, freethinker, pamphleteer, controversialist, and scourge of political and religious conservatives. He became directly acquainted with so many of the great philosophical and political figures of his age, working tirelessly on all fronts to further the cause of the early Enlightenment. And, as part of this labor, he produced philosophical texts which are only now being appreciated for their insight, perspicuity, and creative profundity. John Toland's Letters to Serena is one of the most important texts of the early Enlightenment. Synthesizing an array of European thought - from radical biblical hermeneutics to republican politics; from ancient Stoicism to Newtonian physics; from 'sociology' avant la lettre to the metaphysical speculation of Leibniz and Spinoza - Letters to Serena was not only significant for Toland's own 'freethinking' cause, but also provided crucial foundations for the 'vitalist' materialism characterizing later Enlightenment thought. Despite the historical and intrinsic significance of the text, this is the first modern, English-language edition of the Letters since its original publication in 1704. Accordingly, the editor of this study provides a comprehensive introduction, a contextual 'timeline,' full annotations, and a bibliography. As the introduction suggests, this long overdue edition of a book that bursts with ideas, intellectual energy, and brilliant crackling prose will allow something of John Toland's full force to be felt again, more than three centuries after its original, explosive, manifestation.
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Toland was born on November 30, 1670 in Ardagh, County Donegal, Ireland. His parents are unknown.
Toland got a scholarship to study theology at the University of Glasgow. In 1690, at age 19, the University of Edinburgh conferred a master's degree on him. He then got a scholarship to spend two years studying at University of Leiden in Holland, and subsequently nearly two years at Oxford in England (1694-1695). The Leiden scholarship had been provided by wealthy English Dissenters, who hoped Toland would go on to become a minister for Dissenters.
Opposition to the subordination of reason to revelation is seen clearly in the title of Toland's most famous work, Christianity Not Mysterious; or, A treatise Shewing That There Is Nothing in the Gospel Contrary to Reason, nor above It, and That No Christian Doctrine Can Be Properly Call'd a Mystery. Printed anonymously in 1696, the book excited more than 50 replies and refutations. The Irish Parliament and English House of Commons condemned the work to be burned, and when a second edition bore the name of the 25-year-old Toland, orders were issued for the author's arrest. Christianity Not Mysterious applies John Locke's philosophy of common sense to religion. Whereas Locke suggested that Christianity is reasonable, Toland took a decisive step in arguing that reasonable meant not mysterious. The implicit, heretical conclusion is that revelation cannot contradict reason. Toland attributed theological mysteries to scriptural misinterpretations of priests, and in this he anticipates 18th-century exponents of natural religion. Toland spent the next years on the Continent as a diplomat attached to the courts of Hanover and Berlin. There he met and later became a correspondent of the philosopher Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz. Back in England, Toland translated the work of the Renaissance pantheist Giordano Bruno; edited Oceana, the utopian work by James Harrington; and after financial reverses worked as a newspaperman. Toland felt that his ill health had been aggravated by inept physicians, and shortly before his death in Putney on March 11, 1722, he wrote a diatribe against the medical profession. The content of Toland's other writings, estimated to be between 30 and 100 works, is concerned with political, religious, and philosophical themes. Most important are two works on Milton, Life of John Milton (1698) and Amyntor (1699); speculations concerning the origin of religion in Letters to Serena (1704); and a final statement of his increasingly pantheistic philosophy in Pantheisticon (1720).
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Toland was raised as a Roman Catholic and originally baptized Janus Junius. He converted to Protestantism when he was 16.