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Jacques de la Faye

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Jacques de la Faye was a 17th and 18th century French writer whose Defensio Religionis ('"Defense of Religion'), a 251-page critique of the pantheism of John Toland, was published at Utrecht by G. Broedelet in 1709. De la Faye's was the first recorded use of the word "pantheism".

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  • Israel, Jonathan Irvine (2001). Radical Enlightenment: Philosophy and the Making of Modernity, 1650-1750. pp. 611–612. ISBN 0-19-925456-7.
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