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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Samuel Clarke"”.
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Theology and natural philosophy in late seventeenth and early eighteenth-century Britain
… the texts of Richard Bentley, John Harris and Samuel Clarke, this thesis argues that their Sermons should not be characterised as 'Newtonian'. These texts were highly complex literary productions constructed with the intention of achieving victory over the enemies of Christianity. An …
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Saving the Church of England: John Edwards (1637-1716) as dissenting conformer
… intellectuals of his day, including John Locke, Samuel Clarke, and William Whiston. Edwards was also committed to church unity for those who accepted as essential those doctrines delineated in the Apostles’, Nicene and Athanasian Creeds upon which the XXXIX Articles were based. Though a committed …
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The Politics of Belief in Hume and Enlightenment Scepticism
… doctrines advanced by rationalists such as Samuel Clarke, Hume’s scepticism enabled him to develop sound principles for moral deliberation. Hume’s political theory was built upon a sceptical assumption that opinion was the foundation of government. Given the vacillating nature of opinion, …
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A Philosophical Reappraisal of Henry More’s Theory of Divine Space
This project provides a philosophical reappraisal of Henry More’s theory of divine space, which—through Newton—became part of the metaphysical foundations of the new physics. Of course, this space was soon secularized into an impersonal ether, then seemingly relativized by Einstein. However, some …
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Theological Essentialism at the Enlightenment: The Doctrine of Fundamental Articles of the Faith in Daniel Waterland (1683-1740)
This doctoral thesis represents the first full length historical and comparative analysis of both the contextual catalysts and the originality of the theologically essentialist writings by Church of England theologian Daniel Waterland (1683-1740). Overviewing the most relevant contemporary …