Anthony Tuckney

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Anthony Tuckney (1599 – 1670) was an English Puritan theologian and scholar. He was the chairman of the committee of the Westminster Assembly in 1643 and was responsible for its section on the Decalogue in the "Larger Catechism." Subsequently, he became master of Emmanuel and then St. John's College, Cambridge. In 1655, he became the Regius professor of divinity at Cambridge -- then the seat of Puritan thought.

After the English Restoration in 1660, he was removed from his positions and retired from professional life. He was not a frequent controversialist, with only his replies to the letters of Benjamin Whichcote (published in 1753) testifying to his suspicions about rationalism and the Cambridge Platonists.