Author: John TolandPublisher:
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Category : Apologetics
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Christianity Not Mysterious
Author: John TolandPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Apologetics
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Christianity not Mysterious: or, a Treatise shewing, that there is nothing in the Gospel contrary to reason, nor above it: and that no Christian doctrine can be properly call'd a mystery. By John Toland
Author: Christianity Not Mysterious
Author: John TolandPublisher:
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Category : Christianity
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Joseph Butler: The Analogy of Religion
Author: David McNaughtonPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0191088919
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Joseph Butler's The Analogy of Religion (1736) is an important work in terms of its historical influence and its contemporary relevance. In it, Butler defends Christian belief against many well-known objections: for instance, that the evidence for Christianity is weak; that it is impossible to believe in miracles; that if God existed he would have revealed himself clearly to everyone. The problems Butler discusses are current in contemporary philosophy of religion, but his answers are often ignored, or given short shrift. Butler argues that by examining this world we have reason to believe its Creator is both benevolent and just; that virtue will be rewarded and vice punished. Even if we have doubts, we would be well advised to take Christianity seriously, given what is at stake. The work includes seminal discussions of life after death, personal identity, and the structure of our ethical thought. In addition to extensive notes, David McNaughton's edition includes a detailed synopsis, a selection from the correspondence between Butler and Samuel Clarke, and an oveview of philosophical influences on Butler's thought.
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Author: A Critical History of the Celtic Religion and Learning ... With the History of Abaris, the Hyperborian, Priest of the Sun
Author: John TolandPublisher:
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Category : Bards and bardism
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
John Toland
Author: Stephen Hartley DanielPublisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 9780773510074
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
This study is the first sympathetic philosophical treatment in English of the complete works of John Toland (1670-1722). Professor Daniel presents Toland as a champion of religious toleration and civil liberty whose writing is important because it brings
Common Sense in Early 18th-Century British Literature and Culture
Author: Christoph HenkePublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110394979
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
While the popular talk of English common sense in the eighteenth century might seem a by-product of familiar Enlightenment discourses of rationalism and empiricism, this book argues that terms such as ‘common sense’ or ‘good sense’ are not simply synonyms of applied reason. On the contrary, the discourse of common sense is shaped by a defensive impulse against the totalizing intellectual regimes of the Enlightenment and the cultural climate of change they promote, in order to contain the unbounded discursive proliferation of modern learning. Hence, common sense discourse has a vital regulatory function in cultural negotiations of political and intellectual change in eighteenth-century Britain against the backdrop of patriotic national self-concepts. This study discusses early eighteenth-century common sense in four broad complexes, as to its discursive functions that are ethical (which at that time implies aesthetic as well), transgressive (as a corrective), political (in patriotic constructs of the nation), and repressive (of otherness). The selection of texts in this study strikes a balance between dominant literary culture – Swift, Pope, Defoe, Fielding, Johnson – and the periphery, such as pamphlets and magazine essays, satiric poems and patriotic songs.
Hobbes on Politics and Religion
Author: Laurens van ApeldoornPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198803400
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Thomas Hobbes is one of the most important figures in the history of political philosophy. Yet a great deal of his political thought was motivated by the need to address distinctively religious problems. This is the first collection of essays dedicated to the complex and rich intersections between Hobbes's political and religious thought.
Catalogue of the Books & Manuscripts Comprising the Library of the Late Sir John T. Gilbert
Author: Dublin Public LibrariesPublisher:
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Category : Ireland
Languages : en
Pages : 1020
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