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Institutes of Natural and Revealed Religion : ウィキペディア英語版 | Institutes of Natural and Revealed Religion
The ''Institutes of Natural and Revealed Religion'', written by 18th-century English Dissenting minister and polymath Joseph Priestley, is a three-volume work designed for religious education published by Joseph Johnson between 1772 and 1774.〔Priestley, Joseph. ''Institutes of Natural and Revealed Religion''. Vol. I. London: Printed for J. Johnson, 1772; —. ''Institutes of Natural and Revealed Religion''. Vol. II. London: Printed for J. Johnson, 1773; —. ''Institutes of Natural and Revealed Religion''. Vol. III. London: Printed for J. Johnson, 1774.〕 Its central argument is that revelation and natural law must coincide. ==Overview== The ''Institutes'', published as part of a series of works on religious education, was "a summary of a half-century of the writing of liberal theologians on a number of issues and was to become a standard exposition of beliefs for generations of Unitarians."〔Schofield, 172.〕 Priestley's major argument is that only revealed religious truths which conform to the truth of the natural world should be accepted. Because his views of religion were deeply tied to his understanding of nature, the text's theism rests on the argument from design. Many of Priestley's arguments descended from 18th-century deism and comparative religion.〔Schofield, 174; Uglow, 169; Tapper, 315; Holt, 44.〕 Priestley wanted to return Christianity to its "primitive" or "pure" form by eliminating the "corruptions" which had accumulated over the centuries. The fourth part of the ''Institutes'', ''The Corruptions of Christianity'', became so long that he was forced to issue it separately. Priestley believed that the ''Corruptions'' was "the most valuable" work he ever published.〔McLachlan, 261; Gibbs, 38.〕
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