Conviction and apocalypse in Joseph Priestley's writing
Conviction and apocalypse in Joseph Priestley's writing
Joseph Priestley's millenarian prophecies were not necessarily at odds with his natural philosophy, nor his materialism with his theology, but to the French philosophes and to his friend John Adams they seemed incompatible and they may also seem so to us. That is what this article considers in its three parts: the first, Priestley's reading of revealed religion; the second, the politics entailed by it; and the third, the way a progressive direction is carried in to the future, uniting religion and politics in his late reading of Biblical prophecy.
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Bygrave, Stephen
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1 June 2018
Bygrave, Stephen
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Bygrave, Stephen
(2018)
Conviction and apocalypse in Joseph Priestley's writing.
Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 41 (2), , [jecs_12536].
(doi:10.1111/1754-0208.12536).
Abstract
Joseph Priestley's millenarian prophecies were not necessarily at odds with his natural philosophy, nor his materialism with his theology, but to the French philosophes and to his friend John Adams they seemed incompatible and they may also seem so to us. That is what this article considers in its three parts: the first, Priestley's reading of revealed religion; the second, the politics entailed by it; and the third, the way a progressive direction is carried in to the future, uniting religion and politics in his late reading of Biblical prophecy.
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Submitted date: 14 February 2018
Accepted/In Press date: 15 February 2018
e-pub ahead of print date: 23 May 2018
Published date: 1 June 2018
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ISSN: 1754-0208
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