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Oracles Of Reason (Hardcover, Facsimile of 1693 ed)
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Oracles Of Reason (Hardcover, Facsimile of 1693 ed)
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Deism was often synonymous with 'natural religion' (as distinct
from 'revealed religion') in the seventeenth and eighteenth
centuries; it meant belief in a God, but not in any particular
mystical or supernatural powers. The word itself was probably
coined in the middle of the sixteenth century in France, but the
concept began to emerge in British theology in the seventeenth
century, most notably in De Veritate (1624) by Lord (Edward)
Herbert of Cherbury. By the middle of the seventeenth century,
deism was beginning to concern orthodox theologians, and any
suggestion of it was quickly attacked. Interest in deism was not so
much a movement or a philosophical system, as it was a concept
which allowed those who were uneasy with the elements of
superstition in revealed religion to accommodate within the
enlarging boundaries of religion difficult theological, or even
specifically Christian, ideas. Yet many Christian clerics felt that
deism led invariably and inevitably to atheism and vigorously
opposed the idea and were often intolerant of its adherents. The
texts reprinted here combine major documents in the history of
deism in britain with other less well-known texts whose relevance
to the topic has yet to be properly assessed. Oracles of Reason
contains some of Blount's best and most original work. Many of the
articles in it had been circulated clandestinely in manuscript form
for over ten years: publication of them was regarded as dangerous
and would have been open to charges of subversion and treason. Its
publication provoked a number of replies and attacks, effectively
preparing the ground for a controversy that would spectacularly
grow in the following years. An important and rare document in the
history of deistic thought.
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