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Reason, ridicule, and religion : the age of enlightenment in England, 1660-1750

Title: Reason, ridicule, and religion : the age of enlightenment in England, 1660-1750 / John Redwood.
Author: Redwood, John.
Publication: London : Thames & Hudson, ©1976.

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287 pages; 24 cm

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Note

Errata slip inserted.
Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

Bibliography: p. 269-272.

Contents

1. Atheists assailed: Contemporary opinions of the nature and causes of atheism -- The nature of atheism -- Causes -- 2. The encyclopaedic chroniclers of atheism -- Cudworth and Wise -- Berkeley -- 3. Atheism as a political cause -- The problem of atheism in political theory -- Toleration and censorship: two crucial debates -- Shaftsbury and the eighteenth-century ambience -- 4. Theories of matter and the origin of the world -- The reception of Newton and Locke -- The Boyle lecturers -- Atheism in mind and matter -- 5. The origin of the earth: Atheism in Genesis and geology -- 6. Witches, apparations and revelations -- 7. The persons of the trinity -- 8. The church in danger: Ridicule runs riot -- 9. The reason of nature and the nature of reason -- 10. The significance of the minute philosophers.

ISBN

050025043X
9780500250433

LCCN

76357176
6354832

OCLC

ocm02092622
2092622
SCSB-146671

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Princeton University Library