On Reason. Abridged from Cumberland's Plain Reasons
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Genre: | Essay, Abridgement |
Publications abstracted: | Cumberland 1801 |
Subjects: | Reason, Religion, Epistemology, Christianity, Natural Theology, Infidelity |
People mentioned: | Pythagoras of Samos , Plato |
Attempts to confute deism by arguing that, without the Christian revelation, little can be known of God. Points to the lack of a rational monotheism in the Augustan age, and argues that the moderns are no better placed to develop a religion of reason independent of revelation. |
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