Book he argued with, such leading English deists as John Toland (1670–1722) and Matthew Tindal (1657–1733). The explicit application of Enlightenment ideas to the realm of religion undertaken by these men and others, generally designated by the name of deism, resulted in a religion deduced not from Scripture or the theologians but from reason and nature. A disciple of John Locke, but moving well beyond him in his religious conclusions, John Toland in 1696 published Christianity Not Mysterious, his