Timeline
Lifetime:
1856 -
1935
Passed: ≈
89 years ago
Title
Metaphysician
Country/Nationality
England
Thomas Whittaker
Thomas Whittaker was an English metaphysician and critic.
Whittaker was educated at Dublin Royal College of Science and Exeter College, Oxford. He was an editor of the journal Mind (1885-1891). He won a Natural Science scholarship at Exeter College. From 1910 he was director of the Rationalist Press Association.
Whittaker was an advocate of the Christ myth theory. He was influenced by the writings of Willem Christiaan van Manen and J. M. Robertson.
Books by Thomas Whittaker
The Origins of Christianity
Religion
Literary Criticism
Christianity
Antiquity
Jesus
Origin
In this book, Thomas Whittaker outlines the arguments of van Manen for an English-speaking audience. Van Manen’s work is not now generally known, but his views obtained notoriety by the articles and books that he wrote, in which he maintained that no...