Historian Gregg L. Frazer argues in his unpublished Ph.D. dissertation that Jefferson was a theistic rationalist, a term whose first-found usage is in the year 1856.
Historian Gregg L. Frazer argues in his unpublished Ph.D. dissertation that Jefferson's religious views fell between Christianity and Deism. Frazer described Jefferson as a theistic rationalist, a term whose first-found usage is in the year 1856.