The Christian Religion, as Professed by a Daughter of the Church of England

Astell, Mary/ Broad, Jacqueline

University of Toronto Press（2013/08発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 344 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780772721426
• DDC分類 305.42

Full Description

This book is the most mature and comprehensive statement of Mary Astell's religious and philosophical views. It also represents the culmination of Astell's feminist project to teach her fellow women how to lead useful lives of virtue and wisdom. The main purpose of this work is to instruct women about the ultimate nature of reality, the true source of happiness, their duties and obligations to God, and about "how best to live" and how to treat other people. This volume offers the first complete modern version of the 1717 second edition. It provides a fully modernized text, a scholarly introduction, biographical and bibliographical information, general historical-intellectual background, and definitions of obscure and archaic terms.

Contents

Acknowledgments ix
Cover Illustration xi
Introduction 1
The Christian Religion, as Professed by a Daughter of the Church of England Advertisement 45
I. Natural and Revealed Religion 47
II. Of Our Duty to God 101
III. Of Our Duty to Our Neighbor 151
IV. Of Our Duty to Ourselves 179
V. Appendix 267
Index 315
Bibliography 333