to have favored what C. S. Lewis would later describe as “mere Christianity,” a position that affirmed Christian teaching without arguing that any one denomination or communion should be favored over others. On this last point, he urged the full acceptance (or toleration) of Roman Catholics and of the acceptance of nonconformists into Oxford. William Paley stands in a long tradition of Christian philosophers who argued that the belief that there is a God is evident to honest,
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