Jean Le Clerc (theologian)

This article is about the theologian. For other people with this name, see Jean Le Clerc (disambiguation). For Jean Leclercq (1911–1993, theologian), see Jean Leclercq, OSB.

Jean Le Clerc, also Johannes Clericus (March 19, 1657 – January 8, 1736) was a Genevan theologian, biblical scholar, and journalist. He was famous for promoting exegesis, or critical interpretation of the Bible, and was a radical of his age. He parted with Calvinism over his interpretations and left Geneva for that reason. He was a propagator of John Locke's philosophy and of Isaac Newton's physics.

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