Author: William FleetwoodPublisher:
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Category : Christian life
Languages : en
Pages : 814
Book Description
A Compleat Collection of the Sermons, Tracts, and Pieces of All Kinds
Author: William FleetwoodPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christian life
Languages : en
Pages : 814
Book Description
Proposals for printing by subscription a compleat collection of the sermons, tracts, and pieces of all kinds that were written by the Right Reverend Dr. William Fleetwood
Author: William FLEETWOOD (successively Bishop of St. Asaph and of Ely.)Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 22
Book Description
A Protestant Purgatory
Author: Laurie ThronessPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351961993
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
How did the penitentiary get its name? Why did the English impose long prison sentences? Did class and economic conflict really lie at the heart of their correctional system? In a groundbreaking study that challenges the assumptions of modern criminal justice scholarship, Laurie Throness answers many questions like these by exposing the deep theological roots of the judicial institutions of eighteenth-century Britain. The book offers a scholarly account of the passage of the Penitentiary Act of 1779, combining meticulous attention to detail with a sweeping theological overview of the century prior to the Act. But it is not just an intellectual history. It tells a fascinating story of a broader religious movement, and the people and beliefs that motivated them to create a new institution. The work is original because it relies so completely on original sources. It is mystical because it mingles heavenly with earthly justice. It is authoritative because of its explanatory power. Its anecdotes and insights, poetry and song, provide intriguing glimpses into another era strangely familiar to our own. Of special interest to social and legal historians, criminologists, and theologians, this work will also appeal to a wider audience of those who are interested in Christianity's impact on Western culture and institutions.
The Age of Projects
Author: Maximillian E. NovakPublisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1442692995
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
"The Projecting Age" was a term the English novelist Daniel Defoe used to describe the end of the seventeenth century. This term could just as easily be used, however, to describe the period known as the "Long Eighteenth Century" (1660-1789). The Age of Projects uses the notion of a project as a key to understanding the massive social, cultural, political, literary, and scientific transitions that occurred in Europe during this time. The contributors to this collection examine fraudulent, grandiose, altruistic, and idealistic projects that reveal the period's radical breaks from the past and its preoccupation with the future. Examining topics as diverse as Jonathan Swift's satire on the possibility of a computer, to Gottfried Leibniz's effort to build one, and Edmund Burke's prediction that the project of democratic governance would be taken over by greedy adventurers, this volume provides significant insight into the period's ambitions for an improved future. A well-balanced collection by leading scholars from diverse disciplines, The Age of Projects is a significant contribution to intellectual history, literary history, and the history of science.
A Compleat Collection of the Sermons, Tracts, and Pieces of All Kinds
Author: William FleetwoodPublisher:
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Category : Theology
Languages : en
Pages : 782
Book Description
A Catalogue of a Curious and Valuable Collection of Books, in Various Languages and Classes of Literature
Author: The Works of Bishop Butler
Author: Joseph ButlerPublisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1580462103
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 443
Book Description
The complete works of Joseph Butler, newly edited, with an introduction, notes, glossary, and an analytic index. This edition of Bishop Joseph Butler's [1692-1752] complete works is the first newly edited version to appear in a century, and is the only one to include a single, analytic index to the whole works. The editor's introduction presents Butler's ethics and philosophy of religion as a single, comprehensive system of pastoral philosophy and surveys the vast influence Butler exerted, especially in the nineteenth century. Included here are all fifteen published sermons from Butler's tenure as Preacher at the Rolls Chapel, the only sermons in English routinely studied by secular ethicists to this day; six additional sermons on the great public institutions; his Charge to the Clergy at Durham, controversial in its day for its defense of external religion; his youthful letters sent anonymously to Samuel Clarke, and the complete text of his Analogy of Religion, an apologetic tour de force, including the famous introduction on probability as the guide to life, the analogical defense of immortality, free will and the moral order of nature, as well as his famous rebuttal of deism and his dissertations on virtue and on personal identify. Butler's work is among the monuments of classical Anglican theology. He is a major source for work in ethical theory and philosophy of religion, as well as for the background of Victorian literature. David E. White teaches philosophy at St. John Fisher College and is an officer in the New York State Philosophical Association.
Catalogue of the Printed Books in the Library of the University of Edinburgh
Author: Edinburgh University LibraryPublisher: Edinburgh : T. and A. Constable
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 1404
Book Description
A Catalogue of the Extensive and Valuable Library Collected by Richard Frank, ... with Additions by the Late Bacon Frank ...
Author: John WhiteCatalogue of Printed Books in the Library of the British Museum
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed BooksPublisher:
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1028
Book Description