Benjamin Whichcote was an English Establishment and Puritan priest, Provost of King's College, Cambridge and leader of the Cambridge Platonists. He held that man is the "child of reason" and so not completely depraved by nature, as Puritans held. He also argued for religious toleration.
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Academics
Type
Academic
Status
deceased
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Lived 1609 to 1683 · aged 74
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