The Analogy of ReligionI express myself with caution, lest I should be mistaken to vilify reason; which is indeed the only faculty we have wherewith to judge concerning anything.-from The Analogy of ReligionElegantly written and forceful in its arguments, this rebuttal to pre-Darwinistic Deism, first published in England in 1736, is a compelling defense of Christianity bursting with humanity and compassion, from the perspective of the era's limited understanding of biology, geology, cosmology, and other advanced sciences we take for granted today. This annotated edition, prepared in 1875 by an American theologian, is a must-read for anyone hoping to understand the foundations of the war contemporary fundamentalist Christians have taken to the modern scientific community. It serves as a reminder that, as Butler notes: "Language is, in its very nature, inadequate, ambiguous, liable to infinite abuse, even from negligence; and so liable to it from design, that every man can deceive and betray by it."British theologian JOSEPH BUTLER (1692-1752) was educated at Oxford University and appointed bishop of Dunham in 1750, a position he held until his death.American educator and theologian Joseph Cummings (b. 1817) was educated at Wesleyan University, where he later served as the institution's president, from 1857 to 1875; in 1881 he was appointed president of Northwestern University. |
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| 33 | |
PART I | 45 |
Of the Government of God by Rewards and Pun | 69 |
Or the Moral Government of God | 84 |
Of a State of Probation as Implying Trial Dif | 113 |
Of a State of Probation as Intended for Moral | 124 |
Of the Opinion of Necessity Considered as | 152 |
Or the Government of God Considered as | 171 |
Of the Supposed Presumption against a Revela | 212 |
Of odk Incapacity of Judging what were to | 222 |
Of Christianity Considered as a Scheme or Con | 240 |
Appointment of a Mediator and the Redemp | 249 |
and of the Supposed Deficiency in the Proof | 271 |
Of the Particular Evidence for Christianity | 292 |
Arguing from the Analogy of Nature to | 333 |
DISSERTATIONS | 357 |
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Page 37 - Origen* has with singular sagacity observed, that "he who believes the Scripture to have proceeded from him who is the Author of nature, may well expect to find the same sort of difficulties in it as are found in the constitution of nature.
Page 17 - There are two ways in which the subject of morals may be treated. One begins from inquiring into the abstract relations of things: the other from a matter of fact, namely, what the particular nature of man is, its several parts, their economy or constitution ; from whence it proceeds to determine what course of life it is, which is correspondent to this whole nature.
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| Titre | The Analogy of Religion Cosimo classics |
| Auteur | Joseph Butler |
| Rédacteur | Joseph Cummings |
| Édition | réimprimée, annotée |
| Éditeur | Cosimo, Inc., 2005 |
| ISBN | 1596053062, 9781596053069 |
| Longueur | 400 pages |
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