Author: Richard Bentley
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Languages : en
Pages : 44
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A confutation of atheism from the origin and frame of the world. The third and last part. A sermon preached at St Mary-le-Bow, December the 5th 1692. Being the eighth of the lecture founded by ... Robert Boyle, Esquire
Author: Richard Bentley
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Languages : en
Pages : 44
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Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 44
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A confutation of atheism from the origin and frame of the world. Part II. A sermon preached at St. Martin's in the Fields, November the 7th 1692. Being the seventh of the lecture founded by ... Robert Boyle, Esquire
Author: Richard Bentley
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Languages : en
Pages : 40
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Languages : en
Pages : 40
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Richard Bentley
Author: Kristine Louise Haugen
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674061004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
What made the classical scholar Richard Bentley deserve to be so viciously skewered by two of the literary giants of his day—Jonathan Swift in the Battle of the Books and Alexander Pope in the Dunciad? The answer: he had the temerity to bring classical study out of the scholar's closet and into the drawing rooms of polite society. Kristine Haugen’s highly engaging biography of a man whom Rhodri Lewis characterized as “perhaps the most notable—and notorious—scholar ever to have English as a mother tongue” affords a fascinating portrait of Bentley and the intellectual turmoil he set in motion. Aiming at a convergence between scholarship and literary culture, the brilliant, caustic, and imperious Bentley revealed to polite readers the doings of professional scholars and induced them to pay attention to classical study. At the same time, Europe's most famous classical scholar adapted his own publications to the deficiencies of non-expert readers. Abandoning the church-oriented historical study of his peers, he worked on texts that interested a wider public, with spectacular and—in the case of his interventionist edition of Paradise Lost—sometimes lamentable results. If the union of worlds Bentley craved was not to be achieved in his lifetime, his provocations show that professional humanism left a deep imprint on the literary world of England's Enlightenment.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674061004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
What made the classical scholar Richard Bentley deserve to be so viciously skewered by two of the literary giants of his day—Jonathan Swift in the Battle of the Books and Alexander Pope in the Dunciad? The answer: he had the temerity to bring classical study out of the scholar's closet and into the drawing rooms of polite society. Kristine Haugen’s highly engaging biography of a man whom Rhodri Lewis characterized as “perhaps the most notable—and notorious—scholar ever to have English as a mother tongue” affords a fascinating portrait of Bentley and the intellectual turmoil he set in motion. Aiming at a convergence between scholarship and literary culture, the brilliant, caustic, and imperious Bentley revealed to polite readers the doings of professional scholars and induced them to pay attention to classical study. At the same time, Europe's most famous classical scholar adapted his own publications to the deficiencies of non-expert readers. Abandoning the church-oriented historical study of his peers, he worked on texts that interested a wider public, with spectacular and—in the case of his interventionist edition of Paradise Lost—sometimes lamentable results. If the union of worlds Bentley craved was not to be achieved in his lifetime, his provocations show that professional humanism left a deep imprint on the literary world of England's Enlightenment.
Susanna Wesley
Author: Susanna Wesley
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199879451
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 529
Book Description
Susanna Wesley, long celebrated in Methodist mythology as mother of the movement's founders, now takes place as a practical theologian in her own right. This collection of her letters, spiritual diary, and longer treatises (only one of which was published in her lifetime) shows her to be more than the nurturing mother of Wesleyan legend. It also reveals her to be a well-educated woman in conversation with contemporary theological, philosophical, and literary works. Her quotations and allusions include Locke, Pascal, and Herbert, as well as a number of now forgotten theologians. In some of her work, one can distinguish doctrinal and spiritual leanings, such as Arminianism and Christian perfection, that would later find wide expression in the spread of Methodism. Further, her writings demonstrate her readiness, for conscience's sake, to stand up to the men in her life--father, husband, and sons---and the three incarnations of English Protestantism they represented: respectively, Puritanism, the Established Church, and the new Methodist movement. Tracing these incidents in her letters and diaries, a reader can begin to understand how spirituality, even an otherwise conservative one in rather restrictive times, can serve to empower the voice of women.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199879451
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 529
Book Description
Susanna Wesley, long celebrated in Methodist mythology as mother of the movement's founders, now takes place as a practical theologian in her own right. This collection of her letters, spiritual diary, and longer treatises (only one of which was published in her lifetime) shows her to be more than the nurturing mother of Wesleyan legend. It also reveals her to be a well-educated woman in conversation with contemporary theological, philosophical, and literary works. Her quotations and allusions include Locke, Pascal, and Herbert, as well as a number of now forgotten theologians. In some of her work, one can distinguish doctrinal and spiritual leanings, such as Arminianism and Christian perfection, that would later find wide expression in the spread of Methodism. Further, her writings demonstrate her readiness, for conscience's sake, to stand up to the men in her life--father, husband, and sons---and the three incarnations of English Protestantism they represented: respectively, Puritanism, the Established Church, and the new Methodist movement. Tracing these incidents in her letters and diaries, a reader can begin to understand how spirituality, even an otherwise conservative one in rather restrictive times, can serve to empower the voice of women.
The Folly and Unreasonableness of Atheism
Author: Richard Bentley
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Category : Atheism
Languages : en
Pages : 298
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Category : Atheism
Languages : en
Pages : 298
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Religious Thought in England, from the Reformation to the End of Last Century
Author: John Hunt
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 494
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 494
Book Description
Religious Thought in England from the Reformation to the End of Last Century: a Contribution to the History of Theology
Author: Rev. John Hunt (M.A., Curate of St. Ives.)
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Languages : en
Pages : 490
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Languages : en
Pages : 490
Book Description
Early English Books, 1641-1700
Author: University Microfilms International
Publisher: Ann Arbor, Mich. : U.M.I.
ISBN: 9780835721011
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 894
Book Description
Publisher: Ann Arbor, Mich. : U.M.I.
ISBN: 9780835721011
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 894
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The works of Richard Bentley, collected and ed. by A. Dyce
Author: Richard Bentley
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 580
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Languages : en
Pages : 580
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A Confutation of Atheism from the Structure and Origin of Humane Bodies. The third and last part. A sermon preached at Saint Martin's in the Fields, September the 5th. 1692. Being the fifth of the Lecture founded by ... Robert Boyle, etc
Author: Richard Bentley
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 44
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 44
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