🧠 Benjamin Whichcote
17th-century theologian and leader of the Cambridge Platonists
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- Leader of the Cambridge Platonists, a 17th-century intellectual movement within the Church of England
- Provost of King's College, Cambridge during the Commonwealth period
- Preached at Trinity Church, Cambridge in an influential conversational style
- Lived 1609–1683; advocated reason, tolerance, and inner moral goodness over strict conformity
Benjamin Whichcote (1609–1683) was an English theologian and religious philosopher whose ideas shaped intellectual thought during the tumultuous ...