Author: John BrinePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christianity
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
A Vindication of Some Truths of Natural and Revealed Religion:
Author: John BrinePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christianity
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
A Vindication of some Truths of Natural and Revealed Religion: in answer to the false reasoning of Mr. James Foster, on various subjects ... To which is added, A Dialogue between a Calvinist, a Socinian, an Arminian, a Baxterian, and a Deist, etc
Author: John BrineThe Enlightenment and Religion
Author: S. J. BarnettPublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719067419
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
This publication offers a critical survey of religious change and its causes in 18th-century Europe. Focusing on the Enlightenment in Italy, France and England, the text illustrates how the canonical view of 18th-century religious change has in reality been constructed upon scant evidence and assumption.
A Vindication of the Fundamental Principles of Truth and Order, in the Church of Christ
Author: Frederick BeasleyThe Diary of Andrew Fuller, 1780-1801
Author: Michael D. McMullenPublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 311042018X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Despite his prominent role during the last quarter of the eighteenth century in promoting evangelical Calvinism among British Particular Baptists, only portions of the diary of Andrew Fuller (1754-1815), one of the most important surviving manuscripts from that century, have appeared in print in various volumes published between 1816 and 1882, portions usually inaccurately transcribed and highly editorialized. The current edition is the first complete and accurate transcription of Fuller’s diary based on the sole surviving volume now residing at Bristol Baptist College. This edition, with exhaustive identifications, notes, and valuable appendices for students of Baptist history, provides a fascinating glimpse into Fuller’s ministry at Soham and Kettering during a period (1780-1801) when he became the titular head of the Particular Baptists as a result of his preaching throughout Northamptonshire and surrounding counties; his writing, such as his influential work, The Gospel Worthy of All Acceptation (1785); and his multi-national work as founding secretary of the Baptist Missionary Society (1792), a position he diligently maintained until his death in 1815, having left a legacy unequalled by any other minister of his generation.
Richard Baxter and the Mechanical Philosophers
Author: David S. SytsmaPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190695382
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 517
Book Description
Richard Baxter, one of the most famous Puritans of the seventeenth century, is generally known as a writer of practical and devotional literature. But he also excelled in knowledge of medieval and early modern scholastic theology, and was conversant with a wide variety of seventeenth-century philosophies. Baxter was among the early English polemicists who wrote against the mechanical philosophy of René Descartes and Pierre Gassendi in the years immediately following the establishment of the Royal Society. At the same time, he was friends with Robert Boyle and Matthew Hale, corresponded with Joseph Glanvill, and engaged in philosophical controversy with Henry More. In this book, David Sytsma presents a chronological and thematic account of Baxter's relation to the people and concepts involved in the rise of mechanical philosophy in late-seventeenth-century England. Drawing on largely unexamined works, including Baxter's Methodus Theologiae Christianae (1681) and manuscript treatises and correspondence, Sytsma discusses Baxter's response to mechanical philosophers on the nature of substance, laws of motion, the soul, and ethics. Analysis of these topics is framed by a consideration of the growth of Christian Epicureanism in England, Baxter's overall approach to reason and philosophy, and his attempt to understand creation as an analogical reflection of God's power, wisdom, and goodness, or vestigia Trinitatis. Baxter's views on reason, analogical knowledge of God, and vestigia Trinitatis draw on medieval precedents and directly inform a largely hostile, though partially accommodating, response to mechanical philosophy.
Philosophy, Dissent and Nonconformity, 1689-1920
Author: Alan P.F. SellPublisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1608991016
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
This is a pioneering study of philosophy in the English and Welsh Dissenting academies and Nonconformist theological colleges from the Toleration Act of 1689 to 1920. The author discusses the place of philosophy in the curriculum and the philosophical works published by tutors, professors, and alumni, among them Isaac Watts, Henry Grove, Richard Price, James Martineau, and Robert Mackintosh. It is shown that particular attention was paid to natural theology, moral philosophy, and apologetics, and some of the ideas propounded are of continuing interest. This important book will interest historians of philosophy, of the Church, and of education.
Ex Auditu - Volume 10
Author: Klyne SnodgrassPublisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1498232477
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
A Catalogue of the Library of Brown University ... With an Index of Subjects
Author: Brown University (Providence, Rhode Island). - LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 600
Book Description
The Failure of Natural Theology
Author: Jeffrey D JohnsonPublisher: New Studies in Theology Series
ISBN: 9781952599378
Category : Natural theology
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Aristotle's cosmological argument is the foundation of Aquinas's doctrine of God. For Thomas, the cosmological argument not only speaks of God's existence but also of God's nature. By learning that the unmoved mover is behind all moving objects, we learn something true about the essence of God-principally, that God is immobile. But therein lies the problem for Thomas. The Catholic Church had already condemned Aristotle's unmoved mover because, according to Aristotle, the unmoved mover is unable to be the moving cause (i.e., Creator) and governor of the universe-or else he would cease to be immobile. By seeking to baptize Aristotle into the Catholic Church, however, Thomas gave his life to seeking to explain how God can be both immobile and the moving cause of the universe. Thomas even looked to the pantheistic philosophy of Pseudo-Dionysius for help. But even with Dionysius's aid, Thomas failed to reconcile the god of Aristotle with the Trinitarian God of the Bible. If Thomas would have rejected the natural theology of Aristotle by placing the doctrine of the Trinity, which is known only by divine revelation, at the foundation of his knowledge of God, he would have rid himself of the irresolvable tension that permeates his philosophical theology. Thomas could have realized that the Trinity alone allows for God to be the only self-moving being-because the Trinity is the only being not moved by anything outside himself but freely capable of creating and controlling contingent things in motion.