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Research Article

‘Let’s Bless our father, Let’s adore God’: the nature of God in the prayers and hymns to God of the French Revolutionary deists

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Pages 216-234 | Received 13 Jun 2023, Accepted 16 Aug 2023, Published online: 27 Aug 2023

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