The Works of Joseph Butler

by John Witherspoon

The writings of Joseph Butler, Anglican bishop and moral philosopher (1692-1752), place him in the highest rank of the eighteenth-century thinkers. His The Analogy of Religion, Natural and Revealed to the Couse and Constitution of Nature (1736) made of Butler, if Cardinal Newman is to be believed, "the greatest name in the Anglican Church," and his Fifteen Sermons Preached at the Rolls Chapel (1726) remains a living prescence to moral philosophers more than 240 years after his death. Also included is Studies Subsidiary to the Works of Bishop Butler by Gladstone.

1352 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1997

About the author

John Knox Witherspoon was a Scottish-American Presbyterian minister and a Founding Father of the United States. Witherspoon embraced the concepts of Scottish common sense realism, and while president of the College of New Jersey (1768 – 1794; now Princeton University), became an influential figure in the development of the United States' national character. Politically active, Witherspoon was a delegate from New Jersey to the Second Continental Congress and a signatory to the July 4, 1776, Declaration of Independence. He was the only active clergyman and the only college president to sign the Declaration. Later, he signed the Articles of Confederation and supported ratification of the Constitution. In 1789 he was convening moderator of the First General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America.

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Reprint of the Gladstone edition.