Book detail: The Analogy of Religion: Natural and Revealed, to the Constitution and Course of Nature. To which are Added, Two Brief Dissertations: I. On Personal Identity. II. On the Nature of Virtue. Together with a Charge Delivered to the Clergy of the Diocese of Durham, ... in the Year MDCCLI. By Joseph Butler, ... A New Edition, Corrected. With a Preface, ... by Samuel Halifax, ... is presented as a focused source page for quotations connected with this book, collection, transcript, or source record.
This edition presents Joseph Butler's classic defense of Christian doctrine against deistic critiques, structured as an extended analogy between the natural world and the principles of revealed religion. The work includes two dissertations on personal identity and the nature of virtue, as well as a charge delivered to the clergy of Durham. The text is accompanied by a preface by Samuel Halifax, offering contextual commentary on Butler's arguments and their significance in eighteenth-century religious thought.
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