[Gutenberg 14780] • Evidences of Christianity
- Authors
- Paley, William
- Tags
- apologetics -- early works to 1800
- Date
- 2005-01-24T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 0.31 MB
- Lang
- en
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