Project Gutenberg 2016-10-22 Public domain in the USA. 171 Butler, Joseph 1692 1752 Malcolm, Howard 1799 1879 Malcom, Howard The Analogy of Religion to the Constitution and Course of Nature To which are added two brief dissertations: I. On personal identity. II. On the nature of virtue. Produced by Marilynda Fraser-Cunliffe and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from scanned images of public domain material from the Google Books project.) "The Analogy of Religion to the Constitution and Course of Nature" by Joseph Butler is a philosophical treatise written in the early 18th century. This work examines the relationship between natural theology and revealed religion, arguing that the principles found in nature demonstrate the validity of Christian doctrine. It unfolds a systematic examination of both natural and revealed theology, addressing objections while establishing a foundation for the coherence of Christianity with the observable world. The opening of the work presents an exploration of Butler's intent and methodology, establishing an analogy between the natural order and divine governance. He suggests that just as the natural world operates under discernible laws and principles, so too does divine governance embody a moral system that is just and rational. Through his examination, Butler seeks to demonstrate that the elements of moral government are reflected in the structure of the universe, aiming to dispel doubts about Christianity using reason and observation from nature as supporting evidence. His nuanced approach confronts skepticism regarding personal identity, virtue, and the moral obligations of humanity in relation to divine authority. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Revelation Natural theology Apologetics -- Early works to 1800 Eschatology Analogy (Religion) BT Text Christianity Browsing: Philosophy & Ethics Browsing: Religion/Spirituality/Paranormal 1156550 1156552 2024-09-22T07:56:06.320232 2023-09-23T06:27:07.083600 text/html text/html 1139285 2016-10-22T10:05:26 text/html; charset=utf-8 369585 2016-10-22T10:05:28 text/html; charset=utf-8 application/zip 403255 2024-09-22T07:56:22.807640 application/epub+zip 419269 2024-09-22T07:56:09.021231 application/epub+zip 419268 2024-09-22T07:56:07.686205 application/epub+zip 769906 2024-09-22T07:56:32.145606 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 675201 2024-09-22T07:56:21.318645 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 678990 2022-09-24T08:22:45.166098 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 906764 906547 2024-09-22T07:56:03.245243 2023-09-23T06:27:04.283569 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 907136 2016-10-22T10:05:22 text/plain; charset=utf-8 305956 2016-10-22T10:05:26 text/plain; charset=utf-8 application/zip 20002 2024-09-22T07:56:32.301589 application/rdf+xml 12930 2024-09-22T07:56:07.920267 image/jpeg 2561 2024-09-22T07:56:07.804204 image/jpeg 370085 2024-09-22T07:56:06.403237 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia