Sermons of Joseph Butler
Overview
This book contains Butler’s other well-known publication, Fifteen Sermons, as well as “Six Sermons Preached upon Public Occasions,” “A Charge to the Clergy of the Diocese of Durham,” an appendix, and an index. The 15 sermons in the first part of this text are on different topics, including human nature and the moral agency of man, compassion, and piety. The six sermons preached in public are each listed with the context in which they were preached.
Praise for the Print Edition
The design of the Bishop in this work . . . may justly be styled one of the noblest offsprings of the human mind . . .
—Baptist Magazine and Literary Review
. . . the most profound and unanswerable dissertation on natural and revealed religion, in human language.
—The Merchant’s Magazine and Commercial Review
I have derived greater aid from the views and reasonings of Bishop Butler, than I have been able to find besides in the whole range of our extant authorship.
—Dr. Thomas Chalmers, minister, professor of theology, economist, and a leader of the Church of Scotland
The most original and profound work extant in any language on the philosophy of religion.
—Sir James Mackintosh, Scottish jurist, politician, historian, judge, professor and politician
The most argumentative and philosophical defense of Christianity ever submitted to the world.
—Lord Henry Brougham, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain and founder of the Edinburgh Review
- Title: Sermons
- Author: Joseph Butler
- Series: The Works of Joseph Butler
- Volume: Vol. II
- Publisher: Clarendon Press
- Print Publication Date: 1897
- Logos Release Date: 2014
- Pages: 397
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subject: Apologetics
- Resource ID: LLS:WRKSJSPHBUTLER02
- Resource Type: text.monograph.collected-work
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