The Analogy of Religion

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Cosimo, Inc., 1 nov. 2005 - 400 sidor
I 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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INTRODUCTION
33
PART I
45
OF THE Government of God by Rewards and Pun
69
OF 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
OF THE GOVERNMENT OF GOD CONSIDERED AS
171
OF OUR INCAPACITY OF JUDGING WHAT WEKE TO
222
OF CHRISTIANITY Considered as a Scheme or Con
240
APPOINTMENT of a Mediator and the Redemp
249
OF THE WANT OF UNIVERSALITY IN REVELATION
271
Of the Particular Evidence for CHRISTIANITY
292
OF THE OBJECTIONS WHICH MAY BE MADE AGAINST
333
DISSERTATIONS
357
INDEX
377

OF THE IMPORTANCE OF CHRISTIANITY
191
OF THE Supposed Presumption against a ReVELA
212

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Sida 38 - 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.
Sida 18 - 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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