| Peter Gay - History - 1995 - 596 pages
...believe in the gospels,"4 and only a few years later, in 1736, Bishop Butler sardonically reported, "It is come, I know not how, to be taken for granted...persons that Christianity is not so much as a subject of enquiry; but that it is now at length discovered to be fictitious. And accordingly they treat it as... | |
| Theology - 1977 - 526 pages
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| William Law - Religion - 1978 - 548 pages
...own. Joseph Butler wrote, in the 'Advertisement' to the first edition of his famous Analogy (1736), "It is come, I know not how, to be taken for granted...persons that Christianity is not so much as a subject for inquiry, but that it is now at length discovered to be fictitious. And accordingly they treat it... | |
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