BLOUNT, CHARLES. — English deist, b. 1654, d. 1693. A rigorously rationalist critic, he dismissed every criterion of supernatural apologetics, founding his so-called Christianity—a pure natural religion—solely on reason. His principal inspirations in the religious and socio-political sphere were Herbert of Cherbury and Hobbes.
Main work: *Anima mundi, or an historical narration of the opinions of the ancients concerning man’s soul after this life* (1679).
BIBL.: G. V. Lechler, *Gesch. des englischen Deismus*, Stock-arda and Tubinga 1841, pp. 114 ff.