Author: Thomas CHURCH (D.D.)Publisher:
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
A Vindication of the Miraculous Powers, which subsisted in the three first centuries of the Christian Church. In answer to Dr. Middleton's Free Enquiry ... With a preface, containing some observations on Dr. Mead's Account of the Demoniacs, in his new piece, intituled, Medica Sacra
Author: Thomas CHURCH (D.D.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
A Vindication of the Miraculous Powers, Subsisted in the Three First Centuries of the Christian Church. Containing Observations on Dr. Mead's Account of the Demoniacs, Medica Sacra. by Thomas Church
Author: THOMAS. CHURCHPublisher: Gale Ecco, Print Editions
ISBN: 9781385510827
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. The Age of Enlightenment profoundly enriched religious and philosophical understanding and continues to influence present-day thinking. Works collected here include masterpieces by David Hume, Immanuel Kant, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, as well as religious sermons and moral debates on the issues of the day, such as the slave trade. The Age of Reason saw conflict between Protestantism and Catholicism transformed into one between faith and logic -- a debate that continues in the twenty-first century. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library T098212 With an initial advertisement leaf. London: printed for John and James Rivington, 1750. [4], xliii, [1],383, [1]p.; 8°
A vindication of the miraculous powers, which subsisted in the three first centuries of the Christian church
Author: Thomas ChurchPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Miracles
Languages : en
Pages : 383
Book Description
A Vindication of the Miraculous Powers, which Subsisted in the Three First Centuries of the Christian Church
Author: Thomas ChurchPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Miracles
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
An Appeal to the Serious and Unprejudiced
Author: Thomas ChurchA Vindication of the Miraculous Powers, which Subsisted in the Three First Centuries of the Christian Church, in Answer to Dr. Middleton's Free Enquiry... by Thomas Church...
Author: Thomas ChurchA Linking of Heaven and Earth
Author: Scott K. TaylorPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317187652
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
The Reformation of the sixteenth century shattered the unity of medieval Christendom, and the resulting fissures spread to the corners of the earth. No scholar of the period has done more than Carlos M.N. Eire, however, to document how much these ruptures implicated otherworldly spheres as well. His deeply innovative publications helped shape new fields of study, intertwining social, intellectual, cultural, and religious history to reveal how, lived beliefs had real and profound implications for social and political life in early modern Europe. Reflecting these themes, the volume celebrates the intellectual legacy of Carlos Eire's scholarship, applying his distinctive combination of cultural and religious history to new areas and topics. In so doing it underlines the extent to which the relationship between the natural and the supernatural in the early modern world was dynamic, contentious, and always urgent. Organized around three sections - 'Connecting the Natural and the Supernatural', 'Bodies in Motion: Mind, Soul, and Death' and 'Living One's Faith' - the essays are bound together by the example of Eire's scholarship, ensuring a coherence of approach that makes the book crucial reading for scholars of the Reformation, Christianity and early modern cultural history.
A Vindication of the Miraculous Powers, which Subsisted in the 3. First Centuries of the Christian Church, in Answer to Dr. Middleton's Free Inquiry
Author: Thomas ChurchThe Decline of Magic
Author: Michael HunterPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300243588
Category : Enlightenment
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
A new history that overturns the received wisdom that science displaced magic in Enlightenment Britain--named a Best Book of 2020 by the Financial Times In early modern Britain, belief in prophecies, omens, ghosts, apparitions and fairies was commonplace. Among both educated and ordinary people the absolute existence of a spiritual world was taken for granted. Yet in the eighteenth century such certainties were swept away. Credit for this great change is usually given to science - and in particular to the scientists of the Royal Society. But is this justified? Michael Hunter argues that those pioneering the change in attitude were not scientists but freethinkers. While some scientists defended the reality of supernatural phenomena, these sceptical humanists drew on ancient authors to mount a critique both of orthodox religion and, by extension, of magic and other forms of superstition. Even if the religious heterodoxy of such men tarnished their reputation and postponed the general acceptance of anti-magical views, slowly change did come about. When it did, this owed less to the testing of magic than to the growth of confidence in a stable world in which magic no longer had a place.
Exorcism and Enlightenment
Author: H. C. Erik MidelfortPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300130139
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
In the late eighteenth century, Catholic priest Johann Joseph Gassner (1727-1779) discovered that he had extraordinary powers of exorcism. Deciding that demons were responsible for most human ailments, he healed thousands, rich and poor, Protestant and Catholic. In this book H.C. Erik Midelfort delves deeply into records of the time to explore Gassner's remarkable exorcising campaign, chronicle the official efforts to curb him, and reconstruct the sufferings of the afflicted. Gassner's activities triggered a Catholic religious revival as well as a noisy skeptical reaction. In response to those who doubted that he was really casting out demons, Gassner marshaled hundreds of eyewitness reports that seemed to prove his exorcisms really worked. Midelfort describes the enormous public controversy that resulted, and he demonstrates that the Gassner episode yields important insights into the German Enlightenment and Counter-Enlightenment, the limitations of eighteenth-century debate, and the ongoing role of magic and belief in an age of scientific enlightenment.