Christianity Not Mysterious
Author: John Toland
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Published: 1696
Total Pages: 220
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Author: John Toland
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Published: 1696
Total Pages: 220
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Published: 1696
Total Pages: 220
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Published: 1696
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Published: 2000
Total Pages: 220
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Published: 1696
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: David McNaughton
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2021-09-02
Total Pages: 316
ISBN-13: 0191088919
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJoseph 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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Published: 1832
Total Pages: 328
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Published: 1815
Total Pages: 276
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Stephen Hartley Daniel
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Published: 1984
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780773510074
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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
Author: Christoph Henke
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2014-10-14
Total Pages: 273
ISBN-13: 3110394979
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhile 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.