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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Philip Skelton
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Published: 1751
Total Pages: 336
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: J. Garnett
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 1993-07-01
Total Pages: 344
ISBN-13: 0826443796
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAll truly religious movements are informed by a search for spiritual renewal, often signaled by an attempt to return to what are seen as the original, undiluted values of earlier times. Elements of this process are to be seen in the history of almost all modern religious revivals, both inside and outside the mainstream denominations.
Author: Jan van den Berg
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2021-07-22
Total Pages: 250
ISBN-13: 1000417859
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is a cultural and intellectual biography of a neglected but important figure, Thomas Morgan (1671/2–1743). Educated at Bridgewater Academy, he was active as Presbyterian preacher, medical practitioner, and one of the first who called himself a Christian Deist. Morgan was not only a harbinger of the disparagement of the Old Testament, but also a prolific pamphleteer about things religious, and a publisher of medical books. He received praise for his medical work, but a negative press for his theological visions, and he ended as a forgotten figure in history; this book restores an overlooked writer to his due place in history. It is the first modern biography of Morgan and its readership comprises historians of deism, the enlightenment, the eighteenth century, theology and the church, Presbyterianism, and medical history.
Author: Paul Henri Thiry Holbach (baron d')
Publisher: Hodgson Press
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 605
ISBN-13: 1906164045
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThrough this new translation of d'Holbach's "Christianity Unveiled," and a host of related documents never before translated, the reader will come to an in-depth appreciation of the courageous atheist who criticized sovereigns who pandered to the Church.
Author: James A. Herrick
Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9781570031663
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFocusing on the works of lesser-known yet influential Deists, the author examines the 70-year polemic between the Church of England and the English Deists, illuminating the rhetorical war which raged between them. He contends that Deism owes its significance to these skilled controversialists.
Author: Paul A. B. Clarke
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-11-05
Total Pages: 1236
ISBN-13: 1136121005
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis Dictionary provides a unique and groundbreaking survey of both the historical and contemporary interrelations between ethics, theology and society. In over 250 separately-authored entries, a selection of the world's leading scholars from many disciplines and many denominations present their own views on a wide range of topics. Arranged alphabetically, entries cover all aspects of philosophy, theology, ethics, economics, politics and government. Each entry includes: * a concise definition of the term * a description of the principal ideas behind it * analysis of its history, development and contemporary relevance * a detailed bibliography giving the major sources in the field The entire field is prefaced by an editorial introduction outlining its scope and diversity. Selected entries include: Animal Rights * Capital Punishment * Communism * Domestic Violence * Ethics * Evil * Government * Homophobia * Humanism * Liberation Theology * Politics * Pornography * Racism * Sexism * Society * Vivisection * Women's Ordination
Author: Edward Mactier Macfarlane
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Published: 1860
Total Pages: 702
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Elad Carmel
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 2024-01-09
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 1526168812
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAnticlerical legacies is the first comprehensive study of the reception of Thomas Hobbes’s ideas by the English deists and freethinkers in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. One of the most important English philosophers of all time, Hobbes’s theories have had an enduring impact on modern political and religious thought. This book offers a new perspective on the afterlife of Hobbes’s philosophy, focusing on the readers who were most sympathetic to his critical and radical ideas in the decades following his death. It investigates how Hobbes’s ideas shaped the English anticlerical campaign that peaked in the early eighteenth century and that was essential for the emergence of the early Enlightenment. The book shows that a large number of writers – Charles Blount, John Toland, Anthony Collins, Matthew Tindal, Thomas Morgan, and many others – were more Hobbesian than has ever been appreciated. Not only did they engage consistently with Hobbes’s ideas, they even invoked his authority at a time when doing so was highly unpopular. Most fundamentally, they carried on Hobbes’s war against the kingdom of darkness and used various Hobbesian weapons for their own war against priestcraft. Analysing the ways in which the deists and freethinkers developed their nuanced theories and conducted their heated dialogues with the orthodoxy, they emerge from this study as sophisticated and valuable theorists in their own right. The case of Hobbes and his successors demonstrates that anticlericalism was a key component of a much larger programme whose primary aim was to secure civil harmony, peace, and stability.
