[Gutenberg 14780] • Evidences of Christianity

[Gutenberg 14780] • Evidences of Christianity
Authors
Paley, William
Tags
apologetics -- early works to 1800
Date
2005-01-24T00:00:00+00:00
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0.31 MB
Lang
en
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William Paley was an 18th century British Christian apologist, philosopher, and utilitarian. He was famous for the watchmaker analogy commonly known as the teleological argument. Principles of Moral and Political Philosophy was one of the most influential philosophical texts in the Enlightenment period in Britain. Evidences of Christianity is a critical essay. It says that the idea of revelation advocated the divine origin of Christianity by isolating it from the general history of mankind