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On Language, Theology, and Utopia (Hardcover)
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On Language, Theology, and Utopia (Hardcover)
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Francis Lodwick FRS (1619-94) was a prosperous merchant,
bibliophile, writer, thinker, and member of the Royal Society. He
wrote extensively on language, religion, and experimental
philosophy, most of it too controversial to be safely published
during his lifetime. This edition includes the first publication of
his unorthodox religious works alongside groundbreaking writings on
language.
Following an extensive introduction by the editors the book is
divided into three parts. Part One includes A Common Writing
(1647), the first English attempt at an artificial language, and
the equally pioneering phonetic alphabet set out in An Essay
Towards an Universal Alphabet (1686). Part Two contains a series of
linked short treatises on the nature of religion and divine
revelation, including 'Of the Word of God' and 'Of the Use of
Reason in Religion', in which Lodwick argues for a new
understanding of the Bible, advocates a rational approach to divine
worship, and seeks to reinterpret received religion for an age of
reason. The final part of the book contains his unpublished utopian
fiction, A Country Not Named here he creates a world to express his
most firmly-held opinions on language and religion, and in which
his utopians found a church that bans the Bible. The book gives new
insights into the religious aspects of the scientific revolution
and throws fresh light on the early modern frame of mind. It is
aimed at intellectual and cultural historians, historians of
science and linguistics, and literary scholars - indeed, at all
those interested in the interplay of ideas, language, and religion
in seventeenth-century England
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