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A Forgotten Christian Deist

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A Forgotten Christian Deist book

Thomas Morgan

A Forgotten Christian Deist

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A Forgotten Christian Deist book

Thomas Morgan
ByJan van den Berg
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2021
eBook Published 23 July 2021
Pub. Location New York
Imprint Routledge
Pages 280
eBook ISBN 9781003167389
Subjects Humanities
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van den Berg, J. (2021). A Forgotten Christian Deist: Thomas Morgan (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003167389

ABSTRACT

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, eighteenth century, theology and the church, Presbyterianism, and medical history.

TABLE OF 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

 

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