Joseph Butler's Moral and Religious Thought Tercentenary Essays

by Cunliffe, Christopher; Jenkins, David

• ISBN13: 9780198267409
• ISBN10: 0198267401
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1992-08-27
• Publisher: Clarendon Press

Summary

The essays in this book mark the tercentenary of the birth of Bishop Joseph Butler, the leading Anglican theologian of the eighteenth century and also an important moral philosopher. They cover the full range of Butler's theological and philosophical writings--from his Christian apologetic against the deists to his discussion of the role of their historical context and suggestion of their relevance to contemporary religious and philosophical issues. At a time of renewed interest in Butler's thought, as well as in the theological positions he was opposing, it is timely and appropriate that these detailed studies of Butler's thought should now be made available.

Table of Contents

Foreword David Jenkins, Bishop Of Durham	p. vii
Contributors	p. xiii
Introduction CHRISTOPHER CUNLIFFE	p. 1
Butler and Deism	p. 7
Deus absconditus: Some Notes on the Bearing of the Hiddenness of God upon Butler's and Pascal's Criticism of Deism	p. 29
The 'Spiritual Sovereign': Butler's Episcopate	p. 37
Bishop Butler and the Zeitgeist: Butler and the Development of Christian Moral Philosophy in Victorian Britain	p. 63
Butler as a Christian Apologist	p. 97
Butler and Human Ignorance	p. 117
A God most Particular: Aspects of Incarnation in Butler's Morality	p. 141
Butler and Immortality T. A. ROBERTS	p. 169
Our Knowledge of Ourselves	p. 189
Butler on Conscience and Virtue	p. 197
Conscience as Self-Authorizing in Butler's Ethics	p. 209
Butler on Self-Love and Benevolence	p. 243
Butler on Benevolence	p. 269
Butler on God and Human Nature	p. 293
Index	p. 317
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