# The Reasonableness of Christianity is published as a public theological argument Date: 1695 ## The fact In 1695 The Reasonableness of Christianity was published in London as a public argument that the gospel’s required belief is few and plain. It is a dated theological book, not the Letter concerning Toleration and not the 1689 Essay. [John Locke](/people/john-locke)’s documented role is: He published an anonymous theological book reducing required belief to a public minimum. Later attribution is secure; he did not typeset later HTML. Do not twin this with the 1689 Letter. Do not treat 1695 as a 2001 SEP entry. Later editors, printers, and excavators remain named where they appear. John Locke's documented role is: He published an anonymous theological book reducing required belief to a public minimum. Later attribution is secure; he did not typeset later HTML. ## Context John Edwards and other critics soon attacked it as Socinian. A Vindication followed as a neighbouring instrument. Anonymous print is not unique later party Christianity. Shared printers and later editors remain named. Named others on the file: Awnsham Churchill as printer, John Edwards as critic, and later editors of collected works share the file. The public setting is the file around 1695-08-01. Unnamed clerks, soldiers, printers, or later editors may appear without becoming this instrument. The instrument stays The Reasonableness of Christianity is published as a public theological argument. The setting of The Reasonableness of Christianity is published as a public theological argument is the public file around 1695-08-01. Shared offices, unnamed crews, printers, or later editors may appear without becoming this instrument. Driver [social-cohesion](/drivers/social-cohesion) is attached because the significance names a mechanism from this act, not because a standing list needed coverage. ## Evidence and sources Gutenberg’s later English and SEP independently date the 1695 Reasonableness as Locke’s public theology book. Official: The Reasonableness of Christianity — public English (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10421; Project Gutenberg). Independent: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy — Locke, religion (https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/locke/; Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy). The two URLs are different pages. Where the carrier is a later edition or a received narrative, that limit is stated rather than upgraded to an autograph. Official carrier: The Reasonableness of Christianity — public English (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10421; Project Gutenberg). Independent carrier: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy — Locke, religion (https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/locke/; Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy). Official or archival record: The Reasonableness of Christianity — public English (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10421; Project Gutenberg). ## Significance Improving social-cohesion path: a printed minimal-creed argument. Complex because first publication was anonymous. Welfare reading improving. The attached mechanism is A dated print argument offered a minimal public creed as a cohesion instrument inside a latitudinarian fight. Lag to any modern indicator is not treated as zero. This path is attached because the mechanism is named from this act, not because a driver list needed coverage. The welfare reading on this path is improving. If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here. ## What is established and what is not Established: a 1695 Reasonableness book later securely attributed to Locke. Not established: that it uniquely settled English church parties, or that SEP 2001 is his act. Established: a sourced public record of The Reasonableness of Christianity is published as a public theological argument under 1695-08-01. Established: a sourced public record of The Reasonableness of Christianity is published as a public theological argument under 1695-08-01. Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. Do not twin this with the 1689 Letter. Do not treat 1695 as a 2001 SEP entry. Mixed effects of The Reasonableness of Christianity is published as a public theological argument are separate paths. Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, museums, and adaptations are not converted into extra lifetime acts. The attached driver is social-cohesion. The welfare reading used in this dossier is improving. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself. Shared responsibility is part of The Reasonableness of Christianity is published as a public theological argument. Naming John Locke does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from 1695-08-01 to any measured indicator is not treated as zero. Alternative explanations — weather, other armies, later statutes, or independent cultural change — remain live where the sources do not close them. ## People - John Locke: https://factrail.ai/people/john-locke ## Drivers - Social Cohesion: https://factrail.ai/drivers/social-cohesion ## Sources - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10421 - https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/locke/ ## Methodology https://factrail.ai/methodology Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/jlk-reasonableness-1695