The Limits of Religious Thought Examined in Eight Lectures: Preached before the University of Oxford, in the Year M.DCCC.LVIII on the Foundation of the Late Rev. John Bampton

Henry Longueville Mansel

doi:10.1017/CBO9780511692864

The Bampton lectures at Oxford, founded by the bequest of John Bampton in order to examine ideas from Christian theology, have taken place regularly since 1780. In 1858 the philosopher Henry Longueville Mansel delivered the set of eight lectures reissued in this volume. Mansel expresses the view - influenced by Kant and Hamilton - that the human mind is 'conditioned' and that human knowledge is strictly limited to the finite. Humans cannot attain any positive conception of the nature of the 'Absolute and Infinite Being' with certainty. We only have an imperfect representation of God and the divine through their analogy to finite things. And yet, God exists. Mansel asserts that God cannot be understood by reason but should be accepted by faith. His book ignited a bitter controversy with the Christian socialist theologian Frederick Maurice, and remains of interest to historians of philosophy and theology to this day.

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The Limits of Religious Thought Examined in Eight Lectures

Preached before the University of Oxford, in the Year M.DCCC.LVIII on the Foundation of the Late Rev. John Bampton

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Frontmatter
pp i-ii

EXTRACT FROM THE LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT OF THE REV. JOHN BAMPTON
pp iii-iv

ADVERTISEMENT TO THE FIFTH EDITION
pp v-vi

SUMMARY OF THE ARGUMENT
pp vii-xix

TESTIMONIES OF THEOLOGIANS
pp xx-xliv

PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION
pp xlv-l

Contents
pp li-lviii

LECTURE I
pp 1-22

LECTURE II
pp 23-46

LECTURE III
pp 47-72

LECTURE IV
pp 73-94

LECTURE V
pp 95-117

LECTURE VI
pp 118-140

LECTURE VII
pp 141-161

LECTURE VIII
pp 162-188

NOTES
pp 189-338

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