Scripture and deism
Subtitle: the biblical criticism of the eighteenth-century British deists
By: Diego Lucci.
Series: Studies in early modern European culture = Studi sulla cultura europea della prima età moderna -- v. 3
Publisher: P. Lang
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Bern; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9783039112548
Subjects: Bible -- Criticism, interpretation, etc; Deism -- England -- History -- 18th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Towards a definition of deism; title: The roots of the deists : biblical criticism; title: Deism and natural religion; title: Natural religion and revealed religion in Herbert of Cherbury's proto-deism; title: Natural religion versus revealed religion:; title: Charles Blount's deism; title: Spinoza's and Hobbes's influence upon the deists hermeneutics; title: Locke's way of ideas and its influence upon the deists hermeneutics; title: The deists biblical criticism and the radicalization of the heterodox Christian hermeneutical doctrines; title: Scripture in John Toland's criticism of revealed religion; title: The roots and aims of Toland's biblical criticism; title: The beginnings of Toland's biblical criticism : Christianity not mysterious and amyntor; title: Naturalistic interpretation of the roots and developments of religion : letters to Serena; title: Scripture and deism; title: Naturalistic interpretation of the Old Testament : Hodegus and Origines judaicae naturalistic interpretation of the roots of Christianity : Nazarenus; title: Biblical criticism in Collins, Tindal and the last deists; title: Reason, religion, and freedom of thought : the grounds of Collins's hermeneutics; title: Collins's skeptical and rational hermeneutics; title: Back to natural religion : scripture in Matthew Tindal's deism; title: Scripture, Christianity and natural religion in Thomas Morgan, Thomas Chubb and Peter Annet; title: The decay of deism and the significance of deistic.