Religious Thought in the Eighteenth Century

Table of Contents

• Preface
• Introduction
• Part I. Natural Religion and Revelation:
• 1. The certainty of the existence of God John Locke
• 2. The reasonableness of Christianity John Locke
• 3. Of enthusiasm John Locke
• 4. Christianity not mysterious John Talmond
• 5. Natural religion without revelation Charles Blount
• 6. Why the true deist should not reject Christianity Samuel Clarke
• 7. Lack of universality not an objection to revelation Samuel Clarke
• 8. Christianity as old as the creation Matthew Todd
• 9. Nature and the artificer of nature William Paley
• 10. From nature to revelation William Paley
• Part II. The Credentials of Revelation:
• 1. The certainty of the Christian religion proved by four rules Charles Leslie
• 2. Old testament prophecies restored with the help of the New Testament William Whiston
• 3. The gospel founded upon allegory Anthony Collins
• 4. The limitation of prophecy Thomas Sherlock
• 5. The resurrection an imposture Thomas Woolston
• 6. The apostles tried and acquitted Thomas Sherlock
• 7. Alleged miraculous powers of the ancient church explained Conyers Middleton
• 8. No testimony sufficient to establish a miracle David Hume
• 9. The truth of Christianity proved by internal marks of divinity Soame Jenyms
• 10. The guarantee of true testimony William Paley
• Part III. The Grounds and Sufficiency of Natural Religion Considered:
• 1. The limits of reason William Law
• 2. The world as divine visual language George Berkeley
• 3. The authority of conscience Joseph Butler
• 4. The analogy of religion natural and revealed to the constitution and course of nature Joseph Butler
• 5. The arguments for natural religion reviewed David Hume
• 6. The origin of religion in human nature distinguished from its foundation in reason David Hume
• Part IV. The Passing of the Age of Reason:
• 1. Salvation by faith: a gospel for sinners John Wesley
• 2. A sentimental faith Jean Jaques Rousseau
• 3. The truths of history and the truths of reason Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
• 4. Revelation as the education of the human race Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
• 5. The realm of nature and the realm of ends Immanuel Kant
• 6. The good will and the moral law Immanuel Kant
• 7. Faith in God, freedom, and immortality Immanuel Kant
• 8. Human nature radically bad Immanuel Kant
• Part V. The Study of the Bible:
• 1. The necessity of a true history of scripture Spinoza
• 2. The composition of the old testament Richard Simon
• 3. The source of genesis Jean Astruc
• 4. The bible as literature Robert Lowth
• 5. The spirit of Hebrew poetry Johann Gottfried Herder
• Part VI. The Church in its Relation to the State:
• 1. Toleration John Locke
• 2. The church not dependent upon the state Charles Leslie
• 3. Christ's kingdom not of this world Benjamin Hoadly
• 4. Church authority real though not absolute William Law
• 5. The alliance between church and state William Warburton
• 6. Establishment to be justified by its utility William Paley
• 7. Religion in consecration of the commonwealth Edmund Burke
• 8. That in a Christian commonwealth church and state are one thing Edmund Burke
• 9. Civil establishment of religion an innovation and an evil Joseph Priestley
• Index.
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