 | 1912 - 666 pages
...the banner of Christ still flying. Surely Mr. Powell has not forgotten Bishop Butler's lament that ' it is come, I know not how, to be taken for granted,...it is, now at length, discovered to be fictitious.' Again, in the first part of the nineteenth century, the bloody issue of the French Revolution and its... | |
 | Peter Gay - 1995 - 596 pages
...believe in the gospels,"4 and only a few years later, in 1736, Bishop Butler sardonically reported, "It is come, I know not how, to be taken for granted...persons that Christianity is not so much as a subject of enquiry; but that it is now at length discovered to be fictitious. And accordingly they treat it as... | |
 | William Law - 1978 - 548 pages
...own. Joseph Butler wrote, in the 'Advertisement' to the first edition of his famous Analogy (1736), "It is come, I know not how, to be taken for granted...persons that Christianity is not so much as a subject for inquiry, but that it is now at length discovered to be fictitious. And accordingly they treat it... | |
 | Kenneth Hylson-Smith - 1992 - 423 pages
...the comments of Bishop Butler. Writing in 1736 he bemoaned a general decay and disregard of religion: It is come, I know not how, to be taken for granted,...by many persons, that Christianity is not so much a subject of inquiry; but that it is, now at length, discovered to be fictitious And accordingly they... | |
 | C. John Sommerville - 1992 - 238 pages
...eighteenth century that "It has come to be taken for granted that Christianity is not so much a subject for inquiry, but that it is now at length discovered to be fictitious." 28 Such quotations, while always ambiguous, could be multiplied endlessly and may even have had a self-fulfilling... | |
 | John Farrelly - 1997 - 354 pages
...believe in the gnspels." and only a few years later, in 1736, Bishop Butler sardonically reported, "It is come, I know not how, to be taken for granted...persons that Christianity is not so much as a subject of enquiry; but that it is now at length discovered to be fictitious. And accordingly they treat it as... | |
 | Herbert Schlossberg - 2000 - 420 pages
...Bishop Butler in the Advertisement to the first edition of his Analogy of Religion, published in 1736: It is come, I know not how, to be taken for granted,...not so much as a subject of inquiry, but that it is, not at length, discovered to be fictitious. And accordingly they treat it, as if, in the present age,... | |
 | Victor Shea, William Whitla - 2000 - 1092 pages
...Private Thoughts, 1709. )175 Thirty years later Butler writes, that 'it is come to be taken for granted that Christianity is not so much as a subject of inquiry; but that it is now, at length, discovered to be f1ctitious. Accordingly they treat it as if in the present age this were an agreed point among all... | |
 | C. D. Broad, Charlie Dunbar Broad - 2000 - 318 pages
...place in the latter part of the eighteenth. Butler says in his preface to the Analogy : " It is come to be taken for granted by many persons that Christianity is not so much a subject of inquiry, but that it is now at length discovered to be fictitious. And accordingly they... | |
 | Roy Porter - 2000 - 776 pages
...wary of 'wandering reason', was echoing churchmen's fears regarding the inroads made by free-thinking. 'It is come, I know not how, to be taken for granted, by many persons,' agonized Joseph Butler, later bishop of Durham, 'that Christianity is ... now at length discovered... | |
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It is come, I know not how, to be taken for granted, by many persons, that Christianity is not so much as a subject of inquiry ; but that it is, now at length, discovered to be fictitious. And accordingly they treat it, as if, in the present age, this... 
