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The Radical Rhetoric of the English Deists : The Discourse of Skepticism, 1680-1750 Studies in Rhetoric/communication
author
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Herrick, James A.
publisher
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University of South Carolina Press
isbn10 | asin
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1570031665
print isbn13
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9781570031663
ebook isbn13
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9780585350653
language
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English
subject
Deism--Great Britain--History.
publication date
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1997
lcc
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BL2765.G7H47 1997eb
ddc
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211/.5/0941
subject
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Deism--Great Britain--History.
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The Radical Rhetoric of the English Deists
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Studies in Rhetoric/Communication Thomas W. Benson, Series Editor
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The Radical Rhetoric of the English Deists
The Discourse of Skepticism, 16801750
James A. Herrick
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1997 University of South Carolina
Published in Columbia, South Carolina, by the University of South Carolina Press
Manufactured in the United States of America
01 00 99 98 97 5 4 3 2 1
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Herrick, James A. The radical rhetoric of the English Deists : the discourse of skepticism, 16801750 / James A. Herrick. p. cm. (Studies in rhetoric/communication) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 1-57003-166-5 1. DeismGreat BritainHistory. I. Title. II. Series. BL2765.G7H47 1997 211'.5'0941dc21 97-4864
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Contents
Editor's Preface
vii
Acknowledgments
ix
1. The Social and Religious Context of the Deist Controversy
1
2. Characteristics of British Deism
23
3. The Rhetoric of Subterfuge and Characterization
51
4. The Rhetorical Career of Thomas Woolston
77
5. Tolerance, Expression, and Prosecution
103
6. Peter Annet: Radical Deism in the 1740s
125
7. Reason, Revelation, and Miracle: The Christian Response
145
8. Miracles and Method in Christian Apologetic
161
9. The Religious Rhetoric of Jacob Ilive
181
10. Conclusion
205
Notes
213
Bibliography
223
Index
237
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Editor's Preface
In The Radical Rhetoric of the English Deists, James Herrick of Hope College presents the first full length rhetorical study of a remarkable group of controversialists. The English Deists of the seventeenth and eighteenth century engaged in a heated, high-stakes public debate with defenders of traditional religious doctrines. Herrick demonstrates that the doctrines of the Deists, though highly varied, are best understood as rhetoricthat is, as addressed to readers in a particular historical circumstance and in the context of a bitter public controversy.
The Deists argued that religion must be based on free, critical rationality and that any doctrine that could not hold up to rational inspection was untenable. From the advocacy of rationality in religious reflection, the Deists concluded that religious thinking must be free of coercion, intolerance, and violence. If all true religion is based on what is evident to common reason, then it follows, argued the Deists, that any religion, and not exclusively Christianity, has a claim to spiritual truth. The Deists typically rejected the Bible, which they regarded as exclusive and restricted. Priests and priestcraft were rejected as self-serving mystification. Miracles were rejected as incompatible with reason and experience. An important cultural legacy of the Deists is their early work in biblical criticism, which, according to Herrick, is in itself a considerable achievement, but an invention that is more strategic and rhetorical than scholarly.
The radical English Deists were indefatigable arguers, using a powerful arsenal of reason and ridicule to attack established religion. They were met by a sustained counterattack from the defenders of religion. Professor Herrick engages in a detailed analysis of the rhetorics of leaders and debaters on both sides. The form and consequences of Deism were part of a larger social upheaval in which the power of a conservative class was under challenge. Because they were in a position of genuine risk, the Deists, according to Herrick, typically disguised or outright
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lied about their own religious views, pretending, for strategic reasons, to loyalty to a Christianity in which they did not actually believe. Because of the class antagonisms that were an inseparable part of the Deist controversy, the debate over religion spilled over into a more general political debate.
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