Download or read book Letters to a Philosophical Unbeliever written by Joseph Priestley and published by . This book was released on 1787 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Letters to a Philosophical Unbeliever Part 1 containing an examination of the principal objections to the doctrines of natural religion and especially those contained in the writings of Mr Hume Part II containing a state of the evidence of revealed religion with animadversions on the two last chapters of the first volume of Mr Gibbon s History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire The second edition written by Joseph Priestley and published by . This book was released on 1787 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Theological and Miscellaneous Works Ed with Notes by John Towill Rutt written by Joseph Priestley and published by . This book was released on 1831 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Enlightened Joseph Priestley written by Robert E. Schofield and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010-11 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joseph Priestley (1733-1804) is one of the major figures of the English Enlightenment. A contemporary and friend of Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson, he exceeded even these polymaths in the breadth of his curiosity and learning. Yet no one has attempted an all-inclusive biography of Priestley, probably because he was simply too many persons for anyone easily to comprehend in a single study. Robert Schofield has devoted a lifetime of scholarship to this task. The result is a magisterial book, covering the life and works of Priestley during the critical first forty years of his life. Although Priestley is best known as a chemist, this book is considerably more than a study in the history of science. As any good biographer must, Schofield has thoroughly studied the many activities in which Priestley was engaged. Among them are theology, electricity, chemistry, politics, English grammar, rhetoric, and educational philosophy. Schofield situates Priestley, the provincial dissenter, within the social, political, and intellectual contexts of his day and examines all the works Priestley wrote and published during this period. Schofield singles out the first forty years of Priestley's life because these were the years of preparation and trial during which Priestley qualified for the achievements that were to make him famous. The discovery of oxygen, the defenses of Unitarianism, and the political liberalism that characterize the mature Priestley - all are foreshadowed in the young Priestley. A brief epilogue looks ahead to the next thirty years when Priestley was forced out of England and settled in Pennsylvania, the subject of Schofield's next book. But this volume stands alone as thedefinitive study of the making of Joseph Priestley.

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Download or read book Defences of Unitarianism for the Year 1786 written by Joseph Priestley and published by . This book was released on 1788 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Religions Reasons and Gods written by John Clayton and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-11-25 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traditional theistic proofs are often understood as evidence intended to compel belief in a divinity. John Clayton explores the surprisingly varied applications of such proofs in the work of philosophers and theologians from several periods and traditions, thinkers as varied as Ramanuja, al-Ghazali, Anselm, and Jefferson. He shows how the gradual disembedding of theistic proofs from their diverse and local religious contexts is concurrent with the development of natural theologies and atheism as social and intellectual options in early modern Europe and America. Clayton offers a fresh reading of the early modern history of philosophy and theology, arguing that awareness of such history, and the local uses of theistic argument, offer important ways of managing religious and cultural difference in the public sphere. He argues for the importance of historically grounded philosophy of religion to the field of religious studies and public debate on religious pluralism and cultural diversity.

Download or read book The Joseph Johnson Letterbook written by Joseph Johnson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Joseph Johnson Letterbook is the first scholarly edition of the correspondence of the influential publisher Joseph Johnson (1738-1809). Best known today for his work with politically progressive figures such as Mary Wollstonecraft and Joseph Priestley, over the course of his career Johnson was involved in the publication of thousands of works on a breathtaking range of subjects, from travel narratives to scientific writing to children's books. Johnson was also something of an impresario, and given his active involvement in shaping the books he published, he appears in the longue durée of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British print culture as a gateway figure in the slow transition from patronage to marketplace. The Joseph Johnson Letterbook brings into print for the first time over two hundred of Johnson's letters from archives around the world.

Download or read book Apologetic Works 3 written by Andrew Fuller and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2021-09-20 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Socinianism was at the height of its power, Andrew Fuller challenged it in its self-professed point of greatest strength --the virtue encouraged by its principles of theistic rationality. Do the extended implications of its principles compare favorably with Calvinism in the development of virtue? Using their own writings and the admissions they make concerning piety and virtue among Socinians, Fuller compared both systems in their tendency to convert profligates to a life of holiness, to convert professed unbelievers, their development of a standard of morality, to encourage love to God, candor and benevolence toward men, encourage humility and charity, promote love for Christ and veneration of Scripture, develop happiness, cheerfulness, gratitude, obedience, and heavenly-mindedness in the followers of the respective systems. If challenged that he is being judgmental and has focused on subjective criteria, Fuller replied that he is merely engaging the Socinians at the place where they have invited investigation. Fuller intended to lay bare the emptiness of the Socinian boast to virtue. The work first was published in 1793.

Download or read book The Theological and Miscellaneous Works of Joseph Priestley Edited with Notes by J T Rutt written by Joseph Priestley and published by . This book was released on 1817 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book A Free Address to Protestant Dissenters as Such written by Joseph Priestley and published by . This book was released on 1788 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Letters to the Right Honourable Edmund Burke written by Joseph Priestley and published by . This book was released on 1791 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book An History of Early Opinions Concerning Jesus Christ written by Joseph Priestley and published by . This book was released on 1786 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Alphabetical Register of All the Authors Actually Living in Great Britain Ireland and in the United Provinces of North America written by Jeremias David Reuss and published by . This book was released on 1791 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: