A Forgotten Christian Deist : Thomas Morgan (The Enlightenment World)

van den Berg, Jan

Routledge（2023/01発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 240 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780367765309
• DDC分類 211.5092

Full Description

This is a cultural and intellectual biography of a neglected but important figure, Thomas Morgan (1671/2-1743). Educated at Bridgewater Academy, he was active as Presbyterian preacher, medical practitioner, and one of the first who called himself a Christian Deist. Morgan was not only a harbinger of the disparagement of the Old Testament, but also a prolific pamphleteer about things religious, and a publisher of medical books. He received praise for his medical work, but a negative press for his theological visions, and he ended as a forgotten figure in history; this book restores an overlooked writer to his due place in history. It is the first modern biography of Morgan and its readership comprises historians of deism, the enlightenment, the eighteenth century, theology and the church, Presbyterianism, and medical history.

Contents

Introduction: A forgotten Christian Deist: Thomas Morgan 1. Chapter One: Life of Thomas Morgan 2. Morgan's early publications 3. The moral philosopher 4. Contemporary reactions to The moral philosopher 5. Morgan's answers to his critics 6. Morgan's Physico-Theology 7. Reactions after Morgan's death in England and abroad 8. Morgan as a harbinger of the disparagement of the Old Testament 9. Conclusion