Berkeley, Analogy, Matter, and God
On May 15, 1709 William King, archbishop of Dublin, preached a famous sermon (it was really more of a lecture in philosophical theology with a Scripture quotation at the beginning, but this was not too unusual in the Anglican Communion at the time) entitled "Divine Predestination and Fore-knowledg, consistent with the Freedom of Man's Will." The sermon was published shortly thereafter in both Dublin and London and is therefore now available on Google books. (I have written about King before.) King considers three atheistic arguments: the argument from the inconsistency of divine foreknowledge with human freedom, the argument from the...
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Anthony Collins
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Divine Attributes
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George Berkeley
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Historical Thinkers
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Idealism/Phenomenalism
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Metaphysics
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Philosophical Theology
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Philosophy
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Philosophy of Language
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Religious Language
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William King
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