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...

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Published inJournal for eighteenth-century studies Vol. 41; no. 2; pp. 303 - 319
Main Author Bygrave, Stephen
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Hatfield Wiley Subscription Services, Inc 01.06.2018
Subjects
18th century
Bible
Enlightenment
enthusiasm
millenarianism
Priestley, Joseph
Prophecies
reason
Religion & politics
science
speculation
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Summary: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.
ISSN:1754-0194
1754-0208
DOI:10.1111/1754-0208.12536