Author: Nathaniel POWELL (Muggletonian.)
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Languages : en
Pages : 26
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A true account of the trial and sufferings of Lodowick Muggleton ... left by our friend Powell; who witnessed the trial and all his sufferings, therefore he gives a more full and particular account of the whole proceedings than the prophet has left on record, etc
Author: Nathaniel POWELL (Muggletonian.)
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Languages : en
Pages : 26
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Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 26
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A stream from the tree of life. Sacred remains; or a divine appendix. A book of letters, or spiritual epistles. Supplement to the book of letters. The acts of the witnesses of the spirit. A true account of the trial and sufferings of Lodwicke Muggleton ... left by our friend Powell
Author: John Reeve
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Languages : en
Pages : 1154
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Languages : en
Pages : 1154
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The Works of J. Reeve and L. Muggleton, the Two Last Prophets of the Only True God, Our Lord Jesus Christ. [Edited by J. and I. Frost.]
Author: John REEVE (Muggletonian, and MUGGLETON (Lodowick))
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Languages : en
Pages : 700
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Languages : en
Pages : 700
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Blasphemy
Author: Leonard Williams Levy
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 712
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"What society considers blasphemy - a verbal assault against the sacred - is a litmus test of the standards it believes to be necessary to preserve unity, order, and morality. Society has always condemned as blasphemy what it regards as an abuse of liberty." "Looking across the centuries - from Moses to Salman Rushdie - at writings and speech that societies have and have not tolerated, Leonard Levy demonstrates that throughout history, prosecutions for blasphemy have been tinged with political considerations. Socrates, Aristotle, Jesus, Michael Servetus, Giordano Bruno, George Fox, William Penn, Thomas Paine, Edward Moxon, Roberto Rossellini, Martin Scorsese, and the 1976 editor of the British journal Gay News are among those whose "blasphemies" Levy examines in their historical contexts." "Professor Levy traces the varied meanings of the offense in Western law - from the ancient Hebrew crime of cursing God by name to the modern crime of ridiculing God or professing atheistical principles that insult the religious feelings of Christians. He explores the blurring of meaning that occurred as at various times blasphemy became nearly indistinguishable from heresy, idolatry, sacrilege, nonconformity, sedition, treason, profanity, obscenity, and breach of peace. He shows, too, how frequently and ferociously Christians have persecuted each other for blasphemy, with Catholics pursuing and killing one another over differences of interpretation, then Protestants - all of whom once seemed blasphemous to Catholics - turning on each other, and the more established denominations punishing Unitarians, Baptists, Quakers, and Presbyterians." "We see how in the United States, where blasphemy was initially denounced in sermons and statutes, prosecutions became less frequent and more isolated as people grew increasingly indifferent to aberrant beliefs and First Amendment freedoms were expanded by the courts. Although prosecutions ceased entirely in 1971 in America and in 1979 in England, Levy argues that the threat of prosecution is not dead. The laws still exist, and the U.S. Supreme Court has never found a blasphemy law to be unconstitutional." "Levy also makes it clear that while past sanctions against blasphemy have inhibited all manner of cultural, political, scientific, and literary expression, we also pay a price for the current extraordinary expansion in the scope of permissible speech. We have become, he says, not only a free society but a "numb" society. We are beyond outrage."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 712
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"What society considers blasphemy - a verbal assault against the sacred - is a litmus test of the standards it believes to be necessary to preserve unity, order, and morality. Society has always condemned as blasphemy what it regards as an abuse of liberty." "Looking across the centuries - from Moses to Salman Rushdie - at writings and speech that societies have and have not tolerated, Leonard Levy demonstrates that throughout history, prosecutions for blasphemy have been tinged with political considerations. Socrates, Aristotle, Jesus, Michael Servetus, Giordano Bruno, George Fox, William Penn, Thomas Paine, Edward Moxon, Roberto Rossellini, Martin Scorsese, and the 1976 editor of the British journal Gay News are among those whose "blasphemies" Levy examines in their historical contexts." "Professor Levy traces the varied meanings of the offense in Western law - from the ancient Hebrew crime of cursing God by name to the modern crime of ridiculing God or professing atheistical principles that insult the religious feelings of Christians. He explores the blurring of meaning that occurred as at various times blasphemy became nearly indistinguishable from heresy, idolatry, sacrilege, nonconformity, sedition, treason, profanity, obscenity, and breach of peace. He shows, too, how frequently and ferociously Christians have persecuted each other for blasphemy, with Catholics pursuing and killing one another over differences of interpretation, then Protestants - all of whom once seemed blasphemous to Catholics - turning on each other, and the more established denominations punishing Unitarians, Baptists, Quakers, and Presbyterians." "We see how in the United States, where blasphemy was initially denounced in sermons and statutes, prosecutions became less frequent and more isolated as people grew increasingly indifferent to aberrant beliefs and First Amendment freedoms were expanded by the courts. Although prosecutions ceased entirely in 1971 in America and in 1979 in England, Levy argues that the threat of prosecution is not dead. The laws still exist, and the U.S. Supreme Court has never found a blasphemy law to be unconstitutional." "Levy also makes it clear that while past sanctions against blasphemy have inhibited all manner of cultural, political, scientific, and literary expression, we also pay a price for the current extraordinary expansion in the scope of permissible speech. We have become, he says, not only a free society but a "numb" society. We are beyond outrage."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
The Origin of the Muggletonians: a Paper Read Before the Liverpool Literary and Philosophical Society, April 5th, 1869
Author: Alexander GORDON (Principal of the Unitarian Home Missionary College, Manchester.)
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Category : Muggletonians
Languages : en
Pages : 42
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Category : Muggletonians
Languages : en
Pages : 42
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Catalogues
Author: Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Society. Library
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 380
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 380
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Catalogue of the Printed Books, Pamphlets, Mss., and Maps, in the Library of the Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Society's Museum at Devizes
Author: W. Howard Bell
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Category : Wiltshire (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 206
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Category : Wiltshire (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 206
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The World of the Muggletonians
Author: Christopher Hill
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Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 216
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Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 216
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Nineteenth Century Short-title Catalogue: phase 1. 1801-1815
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Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 892
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Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 892
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Prophecy and Millenarianism
Author: Ann Williams
Publisher: Longman Publishing Group
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 376
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Publisher: Longman Publishing Group
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 376
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